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, and archival fragments. 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 slowing down and 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 is the material itself, its rhythm, texture, or silent presence that tells the story. In every case, the 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 in content making, has given me a deep understanding of how stories are built and shared. I know how to translate material into narrative, how to shape an image so it resonates, and 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: every work is not only an object, but also a story that can be told and remembered.
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?
