Artist Diary

The New Homes of My Tableware

Having been designing my tableware in the form of calebash bowls for some time, being the curious person that I am, I wanted to know what my customers were doing with them. And so I asked them to send me a photo when they unpack the bowl from Guadeloupe in their...

Processing Calabashes

Product Design

The procedure of processing the calabash takes several days. When the berry is ripe, I take it from the tree. Because calabashes that have already fallen down usually have cracks in the shell or have even broken open. First, I very carefully cut the berry into the...

Love Connects Us

Painting

Like the cycle ”Les Amoureux”, this series was created in Guadeloupe and comes in three color combinations. To ensure that all three works appear equally in their forms, I worked pragmatically on a large window pane and transferred the format in this way. There are of...

Les Amoureux

Painting

The abstract representation for Les Amoureux, the lovers, appeared to me from one minute to the other before my inner eye. The image was already very clear and I just had to refine the details. Two beings, each a free individual and yet forming a human heart together,...

Portraits of My Eyes

Painting

The idea for this small project originated from my wish to give a small creative gift to a person who is very close to my heart and who likes my eyes. I wanted to depict different emotions, reflected by my eyes. At the same time I had in mind to work out two different...

Hommage to Rosa Parks

Painting

I started this project by making a selection of nine photographs of Rosa Parks at a different age. Photographs distinctly emerging her charisma, which I described in my accompanying text. I then edited these photographs. I isolated Rosa Parks from the background and...