bio

born in uganda in 1975 to dutch aid workers, i spent my early years between ethiopia, the united states and the netherlands. painting entered my life at twelve and became the red line through everything that followed.

after a brief period at the royal academy in the hague in 2000, i continued independently, working across subjects and materials while returning consistently to the figure.

between 2008 and 2018 i worked in social services and youth advocacy in the netherlands, and trained in sports massage and integrative massage during the same period. social work made me attentive to the ways people protect themselves; massage taught me to notice how tension is held in the body without requiring it to be explained.

sculpture entered the practice through ceramics and porcelain, and gave me what oil painting at the time could not: the whole body in the making, the hands in the material. i returned to the figure, and to the same questions: what the body withholds, and what it can no longer contain.

after a five-year pause, the return to oil painting is deliberate. sculpture gave me a freedom i intend to bring back with me: the willingness to let the process show, to work toward what matters rather than what resolves.

eight years ago i moved from the netherlands to guernsey to be with my husband shaun. when his work became remote, we lived across cyprus and portugal. the constant movement, however freeing in some respects, made sustained practice difficult. we are preparing our next move, where the aim is a permanent studio and a more sustained rhythm of work.

exhibitions

2025 · London Art Biennale, London, UK

2025 · The Maker’s Space, Tala, Cyprus

selected earlier exhibition

2016 · Solo exhibition, Notre dame des arts, Ubbergen, nl

press

2024 · strijd en schoonheid, de kleine k, no. 109, nl

awards

2021 · finalist, 15th international arc salon, art renewal center