Actually it was a coincidence that I got into pottery 15 years ago after moving from Germany to Madeira. In Germany I had worked as a fashion designer for many years and in Madeira I found a new job in tourism. It was an exciting new experience and I learned a lot, but after a while the desire came up to get creative again, and when a friend introduced me to pottery, it was love at first touch.
I started pottery as a hobby, but soon it became my passion and I begun teaching myself different pottery techniques more intensively.
I love trying out and learning about the many different ways of modeling, building and decorating clay, and I'm always up for new experiments and challenges.
For a long time I was striving for perfection, because basically I'm a very perfectionist person. But the longer I got involved with pottery, I slowly became aware that true beauty does not lie in perfection but in imperfection - in those small imperfections that make each piece unmistakable and unique. What could be more wonderful than a piece of ceramics in which you can still see the process of shaping and the traces of the person who created it? Whoever holds such a ceramic in their hands will feel the life and magic of this work. The clay itself is such a living material and you should still be able to see and feel that in the finished work.
I find my inspiration in the enchanting nature of Madeira, with its exotic plants and flowers and in its diverse landscapes, shaped by wind, sun and sea.