I create upcycled wall art by transforming waste materials into stories of identity, history, and environment.
As a Dutch artist and designer, I work with upcycled textiles, paper, wood or archival fragments. I think that every material carries memory: textile cut-offs from industrial production, upholstery sample books, old slides showing a place fifty years ago or a forgotten technique rediscovered in a handbook from a flea market. By reworking these fragments, I turn them into upcycled wall art that connects circular design with storytelling.
My practice moves between the tactile and the digital. I cut, stitch, and bind by hand, while also scanning, recomposing, and re-encoding traces into new forms. The result is sustainable wall art that speaks to broader narratives about industries, cultural shifts, landscapes and environments we inhabit. I use scanning, printing and AI, not to work faster, but to slow things down, to turn fast images into tactile, layered and quiet wall pieces.
Sometimes the story is explicit, tied to the origin of a company’s waste stream or the history of a textile tradition. At other times it can be the material itself, its color, rhythm or texture that tells the story. Each work is more than decoration. It is a transformation of waste into visible identity, memory and environment.
My background in arts, photography and communication combined with two decades of entrepreneurship, has given me a good understanding of how stories are built and shared.
I know how to translate material into narrative. Or how to shape an image so it works. Or how to connect a visual work to the identity of the person, company or culture it belongs to. This experience allows me to bridge artistic practice with business reality because every work is not only an object, but also a story.
My work is a quiet response to excess. We produce more than we need. What do we keep, what do we forget and how do materials hold the spaces in between?