I am a contemporary artist based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Working primarily with acrylic paints, mixed media, and collage, my practice explores how we remain connected to pleasure, play, and hope in the midst of loss and fear.

My first career in grief support therapy and my training in narrative inquiry continue to shape the way I understand both life and art. I approache experience as something continually created and re- created through small acts of meaning-making and creativity - a process that mirrors my layered, evolving, intuitive creative process.

In my studio, as in therapeutic conversations, the meaning of an artwork is not known in advance but gradually emerges through cycles of doing and reflecting. Poetry forms an important companion in this process, helping me to articulate what the works seem to be reaching toward.

The themes in my work are informed by my own lived experiences of re-building my own inner landscapes after significant change and loss. My experiences of immigration, chronic illness, disability, transracial adoption, and organ transplantation have deepened my interest in how our relationships with each other, with nature, and with ourselves are continually formed and re-formed. Drawing inspiration from poetry as well as the colours, textures, and metaphors of resilience that I find in the natural world, my practice invites reflection on interdependence, repair, and the possibility of renewal.

I have exhibited in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, and South Africa, and my work is held in private collections in the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, Italy, South Africa, and Namibia.