Hi there! 

I am Angie. I am an emerging artist, writer, graphic designer, feeler of big feelings & thinker of too many thoughts.

Ever since I was a kid, I have naturally gravitated towards expressing all of those feelings and thoughts in a variety of ways. I have loved drawing for as long as I can remember, 12-year-old me wrote some preeetty dramatic poetry, and by the time I was 19, it only made sense to study something creative too.

For this, I moved across the world, from the Netherlands to South Africa, where I studied graphic design. The five years I spent there were a beautiful chapter in my life, during which I not only got to develop my creative voice, but also my sense of the world and my place within it. 

Upon coming back to the Netherlands, I worked as a designer for a while. Although I always enjoyed it, I never truly felt like I could fully express my creativity. I knew I wanted to do something else, something more true to myself, but I wasn't quite sure yet what exactly that would be. To figure this out, I decided to leave the country again, packed my backpack and spent the next seven months travelling.

During those months, one of the things I often found myself excitedly saying was; 'oooooh, I wish I could paint this right now'. Funny, considering that before I left, I hadn't really ever painted much at all. There was something about always being on the move that made me crave moments to slow down. As happy as I was to be there, it also made me excited to be back in a place in which I could take my time to capture all the beautiful things I was experiencing.

Ever since getting back home, it has not only been a journey of discovering oil paints, but also of learning how to slow down in a world that so often seems to only want us to speed up. Painting has become a way for me to do so.

My work is not only inspired by beautiful places, people, and things, but also by this desire to find stillness. If there is one thing I realised during my travels, it is that you won't find peace anywhere if you are not first at peace within yourself. Another thing I learned is that finding this inner calm is not always easy. Because of that, I can only hope that my art now brings a little bit of peace to anyone who comes across it. 

I am grateful to welcome you to the beginning of this new chapter, and I am excited to see where this creative journey will take us. Both geographically, and of course, more importantly, emotionally.

Much love,

Angie