my story

My childhood was filled with the smell of ink and the sound of printing presses. My father was an old-school printer with his workshop right next to our home. That is where my deep-rooted love for craftsmanship began.

While other children played with toys, I was always drawing. I even secretly preferred going to art school over attending friends' birthday parties. My desire to learn new techniques and improve my skills was always present. Driven by my passion, I later went on to obtain a Master's degree in Fine Arts.

In the early 2000s, I temporarily lost touch with my practice. Like many others, I became absorbed by life and responsibilities, and tried to ignore my urge to create. But the more I did so, the stronger the desire became. Until, in Lisbon, I discovered a pot of water-soluble graphite, which marked the beginning of a renewed artistic search.

Where my work initially emerged mainly from printmaking and drawing, it gradually shifted towards mixed media, in which textiles have also become an important and equal medium. I combine a wide range of techniques and materials, always driven by curiosity about what emerges when control gives way to intuition, experiment, and imagination.

New techniques and materials found their way into my practice, yet the line has always remained present. I draw with a brush, with a lino cutter, with thread, or with textile. The craft-based and tactile aspects of making remain essential. These are moments in which I become fully absorbed in the work and the world around me disappears — moments when everything falls into place and I feel completely connected to my practice.

There are endless possibilities in my universe.

Sometimes my work starts from fairly realistic observations, while at other times it takes on a more surreal or humorous turn. What connects the images are underlying tensions and questions that continue to fascinate me, even though they often arise intuitively.