Candy and Helga

Last year around this time I sewed myself a pair of pants. I had so much fabric left over, that I could cut it out to sew a tunic like…

Pattern 24/52

During the summer months I usually turn into quite a fruitarian, living mainly on and totally devouring all the colourful, sweet and juicy bounty that nature has to offer. Last…

Pink Moment of the Week

… the MATS Global Art Gathering in Brighton, of course! Edit: Check out this post on the Make it in Design blog about the experiences of a couple of attendees,…

Roses Near & Far

When I step outside our house onto the terrace these June days and look up, I have a view kind of like this: I’ll be leaving for Brighton/England tomorrow for…

Pattern 23/52

For this week’s pattern I played with a pattern palette and a fashion trend for spring/summer 2016 called Soft Pop. I wanted to get a feel for the colours and…

Co-Lab III & IV

Doris Reske and me have just had some productive painterly weeks – we have our new exhibition at Gross & Gross in Oldenburg, where we show mostly our individual artwork…

Pink Moment of the Year

It is my birthday today.  And though it was on a regular working Monday, I just liked it that way.  Waking up to table of presents, a cake and flowers,…

Pattern 22/52

I close my Week of Poppies with a pattern.  I experimented with inks on yupo paper this week – strange thing that paper, synthetic and water resistent, that lets the…

A Week of Poppies IV

For the Poppy Weekend I show you a piece fresh from my pink studio, made this morning. It’ s been quite rainy around here lately and for the collage I…

A Week of Poppies III

I made some sketches of the poppies in our garden. Who knows what they will become? Part of a pattern, a photo collage. Or just stay drawing and marvelling practice.…