About the artist

I do think there is a creative mind in each of us. As a small child, we wanted to build things. With pencils and markers we could depict our ideas. 

Science is still unable to explain the how and why of creativity. Creative minds want to continue to see the world through the eyes of a child, always discover new things and never lose the feeling of wonder. If you always question what another person thinks is normal or ordinary, you are able to re-define. What if...? Why not...? The brains of a creative mind are running at full speed non-stop. One project has not yet been completed or the next is already taking shape. Sometimes very tiring, also for your environment... 

My works reflect my interest in images of women and animals specific to me. They sometimes go into a symbiosis with elements that fascinated me in the past. From holidays I came home with particularly coloured shells, marbled stones or crazy pieces of wood. For hours I was able to study and re-draw faces of the covers of girls' magazines. Or I stood in front of the mirror doing my hair or pulling crazy pelvis.

I followed my education at the Fashion Academy Charles Montaigne. Busy with your hands, looking, showing interest and biting is the result of the warm base my parents gave me. Social, alert, creative, driven, but also headstrong, steadfast and…insecure are qualities that have determined a lot. All this has shaped me and prompted me to be independent and to do business in the creative field. In this I can put all my 'brain teasers'. I can't sit still. So I do a lot at once. I love it.

I cán sit still on a terrace. I like it when people look away for a while, then you secretly have the chance to study the face. Wanting to devalue the expression in the eyes, the deeper layer behind the outside. If you have a nice conversation, sometimes a mask can flow away for a while. I experience it regularly during the interior brainstorming discussions in my job. Sometimes even tears flow… no idea what I trigger in people. But it feels real, special and unashamed. A face continues to fascinate me. After all, every person and every being has his own secrets and identity.

Animals can make me very happy. An animal is a feeling creature. They react instinctively and purely. Their eyes talk to you and their attitude speaks volumes. My dream is to live in a loft-like barn house with plastered walls (in the colour Palladio of course) concrete floors, nó skirting boards and a beautiful view of a meadow… with all kind of cows ;-) …but who would not!

Graduated in design and textile design, I have dedicated myself to giving shape and ‘colour’ to interiors for 30 years now. That is my profession. In addition, I started painting. Walls, wood, furniture, canvas…I love paint and chalk and playing with them. It was always my dream to work on large carriers and it eventually became my passion. I also develop my own carriers. In my works, abstract and figurative flow into each other. Making and tuning colours to each other gives me satisfaction. An exciting and above all 'surprising' layering in the models arises in the process, caused by the pre-applied structure on the carrier. So that is my second ‘profession’. But I never work: if you love what you do, you never work a day in your live. True.

My chosen subject is then at the mercy of this structure: 'the truth behind the face' as you could see it. Actually funny. That's what intrigues me in man and being. If we want to peel off the outside, crumble it to penetrate the layering. Or... should we just 'let it be'? By distancing yourself in time, you learn to 'let go'. That process always turns out to be a new challenge…in both my worlds.

I always choose the colours in advance, arising from my feeling about what I want to convey and create. Colour and structure are very stimulating for me. This allows me to put down my own handwriting. Analog colour combinations, a nuance of reality, sober but with a characteristic sparkle. The often impressively large format of the works gives an extra invitation, drawing the viewer into his own experience. And...which opens eyes. 

If only there was a mirror in those eyes... ;-)

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