About & Artist Statement
What does it mean to leave a mark - and to be marked in return?
That question drives everything. It lives in the way ink moves before you can stop it, in the weight of raw silk against a surface, in the moment a person in a workshop touches something they didn't know they were carrying.
I work across ink, paint, textile, and jewellery - not as separate practices but as a single ongoing inquiry into the fragility and resilience of the human condition.
I trained as a psychologist before I became a full-time artist, and that order still matters. I am interested in what cannot easily be said - what surfaces instead through process, material, and the body's own intelligence. Organic fibres hold memory differently than paper. Ink resists control in ways that are worth studying. The unplanned mark is often the truest one.
My work moves between the intimate and the elemental. Faces, figures, the layered surface - I return to these because they carry the questions I cannot resolve.
I am drawn to material that has lived: raw silk, organic cotton, gathered organic matter added to painted surfaces. These are not decorative choices. They are about time, about what persists, about what the hand knows that the mind hasn't caught up with yet.
Alongside studio practice, I work as an art educator, facilitating workshops and developing programmes where creativity is understood as a cognitive and embodied capacity - not a talent, but a practice that can be cultivated. This work runs parallel to and through the making, not separately from it.
Born in South Africa, I am now based in the Netherlands. My work has been collected internationally and exhibited across Europe and Southern Africa. I am currently co-authoring Connected Creativity, a book exploring neuro-embodied approaches to creative learning.
Since relocating to the Netherlands, my focus has been on teaching and facilitation - developing arts-based programmes for organisations and individuals while continuing studio practice.