My main medium is watercolor. I love delicate and light results I can get with it. Recently I have also started using colored pencils. I call those my "mama-medium" as I can get fast results with them and there is no big set up like by paint. I usually turn to pencils for personal projects or when I will likely be interrupted a lot. 

I mostly paint and draw plants. I'm always looking for less known species or varieties and interesting perspectives. I love to play around with compositions, shadow and white spaces because it lets me transmit a feeling through my work. The vibe that comes out of an illustration is at least as important as the illustration itself. I don't like boring (I've seen too many boring illustrations in my biology books already); I like to create feelings of comfort, peace, chaos, strength or hope through my work. That everyone interprets a work differently is part of the magic. 

Last but not least; I make all my works myself. From the idea to the finished work. Most of the time I use reference photographs. I don’t make my own photos; I use a combination of several photos found online to create a perspective, color scheme and level of detail that I like. Additionally, I will read about the species I am drawing, as it is important to me to get its anatomy right. Colors can change depending on the light or the vibe an illustration needs to transmit, but species-related characteristics like the position of the leaves, the number of flowers in a cluster or the species that occur together are very important for me. This is the scientist in me who needs to know all is correct. 

Thank you for being here and I hope you enjoy strolling along through my previous works. If you like what you see,

I would love to make something for you: lets get in touch!