About me

I like every aspect of creation from the idea to the completed artwork.

I spend my free time in the graphic workshop making copper etchings and experimenting with traditional graphic techniques. I often get home covered in dirt but happy. Copper etching is a very sensitive process with a lot of chances to make mistakes. It teaches you to concentrate.

They used to ask, 'What do I need for etching?'

I used to said:
"Patience, humbleness."

One of my role models is Hokusai. During his 70 year long career he made about 40 000 drawings, engravings and paintings however he lived almost in poverty. When he was 75 he wrote the following about himself in the prologue of his book "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji" :

"From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published a universe of designs. but all I have done before the the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. At seventy five I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At a hundred I shall be a marvelous artist. At a hundred and ten everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. "