I’m not quite sure what came first—my visions or my ideas.

But I do remember looking up at the sky as a young child, dreaming. I must have been around four years old when I first felt a deep sense of connection and happiness simply by looking upwards.

I was born in Oslo, Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father. When I was about seven and a half, we moved to the countryside—to my mother’s side of the family—into a newly built house by Lake Tyrifjorden. Summers were spent by the lake, in Munich, and in Italy, where the slower pace of life made a strong impression on me.

I remember my childhood as free and imaginative. We made things out of whatever we found, painting stones with bright markers, writing birthday cards, heartfelt letters, and crafting gifts for loved ones. I would collect clay from the garden to make little sculptures, sing in the local choir, act in musicals, and write poems as the most natural form of expression.

The creativity never left me, and my childhood dream was to become a designer. Life took me in a different direction in my twenties—I started law school before switching to sociology, where I discovered a passion for social psychology. I embraced university life with all its activities.

Since then, I’ve worked for the Norwegian Welfare Department, the national monopoly for wine and spirits, and most recently as a recruitment consultant at a global firm—giving me a diverse professional background.

Eventually, I felt a deep calling to return to art and design. I began accepting small art commissions before moving to Munich in the fall of 2024 to study art full-time. I’m currently a student at Freie Kunstwerkstatt München.

My connection to nature and stillness runs deep. Nature, music, art, and literature were vital parts of my childhood and still are. In between a vibrant social life, I love doing absolutely nothing - napping, dreaming, just being. That’s often when my most powerful creative ideas emerge. After resting, I enter a kind of flow where time and space seem to disappear.

I’m drawn to harmonious colours, fairy tales, poetry and good writing. At the same time, the local forest—Krokskogen’s magical atmosphere—and the ever-changing light over Tyrifjorden continue to influence me. I love being at home, but I also find great joy and inspiration in travelling to Central Europe to visit friends and family, or simply to soak in new impressions.