The things that energise me most in life are discovery, investigation and the visual expression of my findings and related feelings. 

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My paintings reflect the way life reveals itself to me and impresses itself upon me. They celebrate life’s beauty and variety as well as life’s transitory nature. The natural world, my foreign travels, and other life experiences that moved me are my main sources of inspiration. In my art, colour is a major expressive force.

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​I see painting as a process of open exploration into myself, into life, the world. A process that entails looking inwardly and outwardly and that requires experimenting, taking risks, adjusting and readjusting - going back and forth until the result feels right. As such, I experience painting as a balancing act between hope and fear, between futile holding on and hair-raising letting go. It is precisely this struggle where the juice is - the major challenge and enjoyment of it all! And when I manage to overcome the obstacles the paintings put forth and create something which sits right with me, it is pure bliss.​​

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I paint because I find painting exhilarating. I paint to stay sane in an increasingly unhinged world. I paint to balance life with an incurable condition. At the same time, with my artwork I wish to inspire and move the viewer. By revealing, through my art, how I see or experience life I invite the viewer into my world, aiming to make him/her see things in a new light.

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