​When I immerse myself fully in my surroundings and am moved by a particular moment or emotion, I feel truly alive. Through painting or drawing, I try to express these experiences as directly as possible. My goal is to capture moods that awaken a sense of longing or nostalgia and remind us what it is like to be completely immersed in the moment.
I often look for beauty in the (seemingly) inconspicuous or even in the (seemingly) ugly. I am interested both in nature with its vitality, its processes of creation and decay, and by the clash between the urban life and the natural world, between the deliberately designed and the accidentally created. I want to go beyond the obvious and look at the familiar with a fascinated, unshaken gaze. I also want to draw attention to the processes and mechanisms that keep our civilisation alive and which, on closer inspection, reveal both absurd and aesthetic aspects.
A question that has long preoccupied me outside of my art is that of sustainability or sufficiency: How can we transform our society and economy so that we can live permanently within the framework of flourishing ecosystems? Even if I cannot answer this question with my art, I would like to draw attention to the interconnected issues, such as the dependencies and dominant mechanisms of the fossil-fuelled Anthropocene, and the marginalisation, yet enduring power, of the natural world. It is important to me to look as closely, openly and non-judgmentally as possible, allowing situations and subjects to speak for themselves. If the viewer then discovers something like a being, a soul or a deeper dimension in my work, something additional has been created that I have not consciously brought about, but which aligns with the essence of my artistic vision.
