I have used sketchbooks my whole life. I learned binding my own with a very generous and gifted teacher at a school club in my early teens. Being able to make them just how I wanted them to be made my sketchbook practice flourish even more. I would sketch whatever I had in front of me – mostly buildings and rather graphic still lives. I found organic shapes challenging whether they formed part of the flora, fauna or my human environment. Keeping a sketchbook has definitely helped with that and nowadays I explore all kind of subjects on these intimate pages. There they can live and grow till they are ready to become paintings or lead a forever secret life few will be aware of.

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Early in 2021, in the third lockdown, I couldn´t go to the studio and was in charge of our three young children over two months. To stay connected to my practice in some way I participated in #the100dayproject for the first time between January 31st and May 10th. In this initial project I explored space and mark on a daily basis in a dedicated sketchbook. If you like to have a look, click here to hop over to my instagram and the highlight #100daysofspaceandmark.

During the project new questions arose and I decided to continue investigating after it ended but with a new focus for the next 100 days. This time I decided to take it slower because the summer holidays would start only a few weeks later and the project was more ambitious. It’s still a 100-day-project but spread over a year.

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Launching a new website is exciting and the perfect moment to reconsider things related to this space.
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Here are the topics I plan to talk about in my next studio notes. Let me know what you´re curious about!

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