My art work stems from a long inner journey. After much hesitation and exploring to find out what direction to take my creations, I looked back on my life and at what I could find that would guide me. There were two important aspects: my many travels around the world and my first trade weaving.

By associating travel and weaving, I am able to create works that are a reflection of life. In other words I weave the stories of my life, my memories, like theatrical plays. I have been a ceramic artist for many years with an open heart and mind and I continue to look around and absorb what life and the world wishes to share with me.

My approach is that of many of my contemporaries, ill at ease in a constantly changing world where everything is uncertain. I draw my inspiration from my roots in the sacred universal memory. It is a vital resource, a search for identity. The places from where I draw my inspiration are laden with symbols. They give me landmarks, an anchoring. I want to create a dream space, expressing fragments of thought, drafting stories, myths.

I carry with me for days sometimes weeks, the design of my pieces. I work without an outline, without a drawing, somehow without a net. I use natural pigments and am very attached to the colors of the earth. The shapes and colors somehow meet or mingle with precision; the decorative details arrive in physical balance. I am fascinated by the transformation of the earth, beating it, rolling it, bending it according to my wishes. Using the movements of my body, I model the land, giving it contours, portraying my inner landscape, my imaginary houses.

The symbolic side of the boat is a subject that comes up frequently in my work, boat-world, boat shelter, and sacred boat, timeless connections between the earth, the sea, the inside and the outside world.

I love the earth because of the memory it carries through time; the thoughts of ceramists and potters from the beginning of time, fragments of ancient pottery found during a walk, a voyage to the past, the journey of a lifetime, an energy and a creativity.