artist statement

What began as a personal search for greater freedom has grown into an artistic exploration of what emerges when control gives way to intuition, experimentation, and imagination. After years of primarily trying to meet expectations and keep everything under control, I discovered how much breathing space opens up when you dare to let go. That experience continues to be an important driving force in my work, which moves between control and letting go.

I work with a wide range of techniques and materials, including graphite-watercolour, textiles, mixed media, and sculptural elements. I use these techniques and materials as instruments to make an idea visible. During the process of making, the familiar often takes an unexpected turn: the known shifts, transforms, or acquires new meanings.

Humour, vulnerability, and a touch of surrealism run as a common thread through my work. I work with images that do not fix themselves into a single meaning, but instead leave room for shift, imagination, and association. I enjoy working in the space between the literal and the figurative, where image and language sometimes touch. Words, expressions, and phrases emerge as image, reference, or double layer.

By experimenting with material, form, and meaning, I explore tensions between freedom and limitation, between expectation and imagination, between adaptation and resistance, between control and letting go.

My sources of inspiration operate within the same fields of tension: the individual and the collective, control and instinct, humour and critique, speech and silence. Figures and images from folk culture, pop culture, and nature play a role in my work as carriers of behaviour, tension, communication, and resistance.