ARTIST STATEMENT

“Art is the conscience of mankind.” (Friedrich Hebel)

I always wanted to be a visual artist. Already as a child I painted the trees of the nature reserve behind my parent’s house. Straight after school, I studied Fine Arts. However, already during my studies I discovered my love for nature and my passion for science, and I started to combine these fields with my art. As the concern about climate change grew louder in the society, my vision became clearer; I wanted to use my art to present this topic from a more creative and emotional point of view. I wanted to convert scientific facts into visual form to thus offer an additional way to look into this subject. Today it is clear that climate change is such an overarching issue, that it can only be solved and needs to be addressed interdisciplinary. Next to researching environmental issues, I started researching the role of creativity in problem solving, and thus started recognizing the tremendous surplus that could be found in the fusion of art and science. Since then I started to do what could be called climate art.