What did you get in trouble for as a kid? Anything adults told you to avoid that’s actually a big part of your life now?

As a kid I was very restless and never stopping doing things. I wouldn’t go to sleep until very late, getting paint all over the house. So mostly, I think the paint part was what got me in trouble. :)

What was your favorite thing to draw as a child? Why did that lodge in your head?

I don’t know why but I had a stage where I only drew skeletons doing things, hahaha.

Did you have a magic moment when you knew you wanted art to be your life?

I'm a determined person, and I was always committed to being an artist. I was raised on a farm, so we didn’t have a lot of experience with the art world. My parents just reminded me that being an artist is very tough, and if I wanted to do art, I needed to put the artwork first in order to make it living out of it. 

“I have a bed for my cat to supervise the work.”

Where do you work? What’s your workspace like? Any objects you’ve had a long time?

I have pictures of my friends in front of me to remind me that not everything is work – and to remind me to call them often. I also have a bed for my cat to supervise the work.

How does creativity run in your family, even if it’s not design-related?

My parents create all kind of things to fix stuff at the farm. I think I was raised to fix everything in the moment with the things that I have around, and I enormously appreciate that they taught me this!