I am a social person and I get energy, knowledge and inspiration from others.

So my work deals a lot with social practice and involving others through collaborations or coworking.

I also work a lot with subjects that can have a sustainable or environmental twist to them in hope of giving some insight to the spectator. Lately a lot of my focus has been canalized through my ever obsession around the sea.

Most of my pieces have been glazed with natural materials that I have sourced myself and created glazes with. I am interested in telling about everything around the objects based on the processes that they have been through. Which materials I have used, what I physically put on them, natural glazes, markings from materials or smoke and gases from different firings. By doing so I can load the objects with stories and a different kind of narrative value.

I have already placed several objects in the sea, which are currently being changed by nature and its surroundings.

Working both with emotions and science in an artistic way I want to engage people. I want the viewer to understand the processes and the work/craft that are put into it.

I see many areas that I want to explore. But I know my own limitations, and if I can involve people with other crafts/skills and thoughts I feel in most cases that the projects are stronger and can reach further.

I have always been a storyteller. By taking that and putting it into ceramic objects, through bioart, relational or new materialistic art directions I feel that I can have something to say.

As for my functional ceramic approach and objects I feel that through the last 20 years of working in the service industry I have gained a valuable insight in how guests/people look at objects that they get served drinks in or food on. And as foraging and seasonal flavors were very important for me as a part of my bartender profession, the materials that I now collect and search for is as important as a ceramicist. By implementing them as an integrated part, you encapsulate a particular emotion or story, while with a drink or dish you serve something that in the next second is gone, and only becomes a memory. They represent the opposite of each other but they belong together and can contain the same materials and story.

Something that is fleeting and something that is possibly forever

It’s about creating an experience for the guest, the spectator or the person that owns the object. You can load that experience with emotions or stories. You can create a universe within.