I started drawing and painting from early age. Later I started to combine this with other art forms. Photography, costume designing, murals and book-illustrating and crafts like knitting and crochet are all equal members of my artistic world.
My work is best described as frozen dream or visual poetry. Fragments of texts and daily dream poured on canvas. There is no need to be understood for the things that are, their existence itself is proof of usefulness.
My favourite subjects are trees, birds and women. The bird, traditionally seen as a symbol of love, does not always represent romantic love here. The tree and the woman stand for life and its secrets. Recently my work is becoming more and more abstract, there are still stories told and images that one could recognize but less than before.
In some of my paintings traditional patterns play a role, these are inspired by Mughal miniatures.
My formal education is in the fields of Fine Arts, Social Sciences and Indology. I have been very active in the field of Theatre (costume/stage design) and Indian classical music. For the last six years I have worked with a Dutch television channel that made documentaries about Hinduism and the Hindu community of the Netherlands (OHM). I have also been a crafts teacher and social worker earlier in my career.
