I paint without a plan. No sketches, no rules — just instinct and intuition. Letting go of thoughts and surrendering to the process of creation, until the work feels true.

I mostly work with mixed media on canvas, often incorporating materials gathered from the places I've been - soil, sand, coffee grounds - grounding each piece in a specific time and place. Born in the Netherlands, shaped by years in Indonesia, Singapore, and now Australia, my work is deeply personal: a record of what rises from within when the world goes quiet. Painting is the one thing that silences my mind completely: I enter a kind of stillness where thought falls away and something truer takes over.

I hope when you look at these paintings, you feel something of that too.