Career
Born in The Hague, Westerik received his education at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague from 1942 to 1947. After his graduation he mad a study trip to the United States in 1948. Back in the Netherlands, he settled as independent artist in The Hague.
With the artists Herman Berserik, January van Heel, Willem Hussem and Jaap Nanninga he participated in the Verve group, which they founded in 1951 and resolved in 1957.
From 1954 to 1958 he was lecturer at the Internationale School and the Deutsche Schule in Scheveningen, and from 1955 to 1958 also at the Vrije Academie in The Hague. From 1958 to 1971 he was lecturer in figure drawing at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
And from 1960 to 1970 he also lectures at Ateliers "63 in Haarlem. In 1971 he moved to Rotterdam, and started a studio in the South of France, where he worked alternately. where he worked until 2010.
