INTERVIEW

What artists have influenced you?
Beatrix Potter with her storytelling and personality, Henri Matisse with his colors and shape language, Štěpán Zavřel  with his poetic, painterly, lyrical style.  I'm constantly in awe of what the creative mind comes up with. 

What is your typical workday like?
Being both an early bird and a night owl, when the light and contrast is the best,  I'm wired to work during these hours. The hours in between are for everything else. 

What are you afraid of?
My biggest fear is that I run out of my favorite D 706 Rose Holbein paint and finding out that it had been discontinued. 

What does failure mean to you?
Last week I managed to place my new car on the top of a huge boulder. That was an expensive failure. Professionally? Not replacing a lid on my D 706 Rose Holbein paint tube and letting it dry out.

What made you decide to become an illustrator?
I had no choice, no plan B. I'm a bad driver, a terrible cook and I'm not productive during day hours. 

Where do you turn to ideas and inspiration?
There are 17,932 photos on my phone of various color combinations I have found in nature. But now, I'm afraid of running out of phone storage.

Any dreams you want to accomplish? 
I have two. To live in a lighthouse in the Adriatic Sea with a reliable art supply delivery service and a boat instead of a car.  Secondly, I'm planning on purchasing a big piece of my neighborhood to protect it from developers. Easy, peasy.