About me

I have always felt the urge to express myself creatively for as long as I can remember. As a child I was delighted by my large collection of toy cars, and would often pass my time setting them up in different constellations across my carpet floor. My interest, however, was not sparked by the imaginative and colourful racing cars, but the day-to-day current models and brands that I could identify in life size outside my window or on the streets. Similarly, small plastic animals kindled my fascination of playing and experimenting with the model-sized world.

The enthrallment of being able to explore the small-scale world of models and artefacts around me, to touch and manipulate it to form and create whatever I can imagine, has accompanied me throughout my life.

My urge to find a creative outlet did not settle, and so I turned to try my hands at crafts such as macramé, knitting, spinning, woodwork, silk painting, and batik among others.

After graduating from University, I set forth into a new nomadic lifestyle with my family (so far I have lived in Taiwan, Myanmar, PR China, Oman, Norway, The Netherlands, Singapore and England). Hand in hand with this, came the return of my aptitude for the arts. While taking part in different art workshops, I got to experience many different techniques and simultaneously fell in love with clay.

My life has been shaped by movement and migrations into new worlds, transforming my mind into somewhat of a library of impressions, smells, sentiments, perceptions and experiences; a library that is waiting to be rummaged through and explored - to be let loose.

This was finally achieved through my gaining of knowledge of different techniques, which opened the door to the treasures of my mind, and helped me organize and better make sense of them. My preferred mediums of clay, acrylic, pastels, water color and oil paints now helped me to arrange and shape my new ‘models’ in any way I pleased. These new ideas are, of course, shaped by moral and ethical principles, and no longer serve only as a method of personal understanding, but act as a vehicle of communication and opinion as well. And so, my repertoire can be found to include both pieces with underlying social criticisms, as well as purely abstract shapes, ideas and objects.

Colour and textures play a prominent role in my works. The ability of colour vision that the human eye and brain enables us to experience, should, in my opinion, not be taken for granted. A common object can, through a simple change in colour, take on a completely new dimension; inconspicuous can become conspicuous. But also emotion, perception and smell can be translated into color and connected to a form or object. I often undertake an expedition of color, without pre-planning or having any knowledge of where it might take me.

My work with clay and sculpture has fostered my interest and love for thick paint application and brushstrokes. On top of this comes the everyday time constraint, that does not leave much time for creative activities and continuously pressures me into fast completion of a piece. This means that I am not so much interested in fine detail and oddments, instead focusing on my concentration and getting across my overall concept in a limited amount of time.

My ceramic works include collages made of fired and glazed moveable pieces that are created out of the unpredictability of the firing process. I use these “broken” and “combed out” pieces to create new collages, thereby giving them a new shape and meaning. My fear of the extinction of many plant and animal species and natural environments shines through in many of my ceramic pieces.