Johfra was the founder of the artist group of 7 meta-realists. Johfra had a long-term relationship with Diana Vandenberg (The Hague 1923-1997), who also belonged to this group. Under the influence of 'Rozenkruisers' gatherings, the spiritually oriented Johfra and Diana immersed themselves in metaphysics, Gnosticism and Hermetics and created esoteric, visionary representations - painted extremely realistically - of things beyond ordinary consciousness.