From an early age, art was all around me. My mother invited artists to the Lytse Slot in Friesland - the house where we lived. She organized exhibitions, collected folk art and crafts, there was talking, experimentation, making. That liveliness, that exchange, shaped me.

In my mid-twenties I moved to Amsterdam, where I went to work at the Royal Palace. Since then, art has become my work, but also my way of seeing and living. I still live there now, with my family.