Guiding creative processes
I deeply believe that art opens up spaces for transformation. Not because it has answers, but because it invites us to discover new questions and to meet ourselves.
Every encounter with matter is also an encounter with our history, our sensitivity and our possibilities.
For more than fifteen years I have guided creative processes through clay, drawing, painting and other artistic languages. My practice grows out of my experience as a contemporary artist and is nourished by my training in Jungian-oriented art therapy, by the anthroposophical view of human development, and by ongoing research into creativity, childhood and the bond between art and transformation.
I understand childhood not only as a stage of life, but as a state of being: a space of curiosity, play, presence and wonder that we can return to in order to create new ways of inhabiting the world.
I do not set out to teach how to make a perfect piece. My purpose is to offer a space of trust, listening and freedom where each person can explore their own creative language. I believe that every authentic creation reveals something of the person who makes it — and that, in that process, the work transforms us too.
As we shape the clay, the clay shapes us too.
Influences
Donald Winnicott
He understood play as the potential space in which a person can unfold their creativity and meet themselves.
Cornelia Elbrecht
She deepened our understanding of clay as a privileged medium for integrating body, emotion and imagination through sensory experience.
I work with children, teenagers and adults, in individual and group processes, adapting each proposal to the needs and rhythms of those taking part.
Modelling is much more than giving shape to clay. It is a chance to recognise and transform ourselves.