About me.

I worked for 15+ years as a visual artist. After my studies at St Joost Academy for Art and Design (BA, MFA) and Mountain School of Arts Los Angeles I exhibited my work in the Netherlands and abroad in solo and group exhibitions.

Meanwhile writing, being part of a collective, teaching and doing other jobs. What I didn’t see coming was that the people aspect of my work would touch me the way it did. As is often the case before change, I was confronted with a roadblock. That opened up another path in my work.

I found, the artists’ way can truly contain everything. It’s different than what I thought it was. Becoming more free means now: feeling more connected. Working with people through coaching and other services is part of the work I love to offer now. Most of the clients I worked with are creatives, but that is in no way necessary.

The moment things started to pay off a bit for my artistic career, something told me that more succes, or visibility, was not ever going to fill something (a hole, pain?) I felt, inside. Becoming an artist was my well-disguised project to earn love and mostly, respect. At the same time, it is something I still value deeply and have based a few life choices upon. Through therapy, and trainings, but also through movement I reconnected with a deeper layer of self, body mind and spirit. I had to let go of it, the identity, the work. I let go for the work to be things other than what it is. I like what it has become.

What about the search for freedom? For me, now, it’s a feeling of simple and deep joy. When I feel truly connected to my self, and others.

Curious?

I’d love to hear from you.

Sources

The artist’s way The path of my personal and work life. All artists i’ve met, and everyone I still have to meet.

The Artists’ Way book (and method) by Julia Cameron is also warmly reccomended

Zijnsorientatie Takes it’s knowledge and methods from Eastern and Western views on embodied freedom of being and fully expressing who you are. And it’s blockages. Psychology, psychotherapy, non-duality, Tibetan Buddhism. Biographic work, meditation, visualisation, focussing, parts work, constellation work. Psycho-education. Trauma informed work. Vision, method.

Non-Violent Communication (NVC) - Marshall Rosenberg helped me to see where language crosses paths with true connection. Vision, method.

Please see my full CV for more information on studies, training and work experience.