*1987 | In Rottweil (Germany).
1989 – 1996 | Growing up in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).
1997 – 2014 | Youth, school and studies in and around Freiburg (Germany).
Between 2004 and 2011 | 3- to 10-months stays in Chile, Peru and Australia as a student, volunteer or worker.
2007 – 2009 | Studies of psychology B. Sc. (3 semesters) at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Germany).
2009 – 2014 | Studies and university diploma in visual arts (main subject), nutrition & textiles and mathematics for teaching profession (focus on secondary school) at the Freiburg University of Education (Germany).
During the above-mentioned studies, additional studies in curative and socio-pedagogical art therapy at the Institute for Scientific Advanced Training in Freiburg (acquisition of the intermediate certificate).
(Continuation and completion of further therapeutic training / studies planned for future integration into my current self-employed artistic & art teaching profession.)
2015 – 2017 | Working in Hamburg and Lower Saxony (Germany) in the school sector and in the socio-pedagogical field (primary school, integrated secondary school, clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy).
Part-time self-employed artistic activity.
Since 2018 | Full-time self-employed visual artist and art teacher / pedagogue.
Representation via and collaboration with Hamburg’s artotheque “Kunstleihe Hamburg” (Germany).
Art instructor at boesner Ltd. (presence workshops in the branches Hamburg-Altona, Glinde, Bremen and Kiel (northern Germany) (until 2022), video tutorial offers and online drawing courses (ongoing)).
Art teacher at the cultural center “Kulturhaus Süderelbe” in Hamburg (Germany) (painting courses for children as well as holiday projects) (until 2022).
Collaboration with Kidstime Deutschland e.V. (training as a Kidstime-worker in 2019)
(pedagogical work (Kidstime-workshops in Bremervörde (until 2022)), illustration and translation services as well as graphic and web design (ongoing)).
Member of the artist group “Kunstkreis2012” in Lüneburg (Germany) (until 2022).
Studio seat in the studio house “Atelierhaus23” in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg (Germany) (until 2022).
2022 | Stays in southern Germany, Colombia and southern France.
2023 | Residence in Nice (Côte d’Azur, southern France).
Since 2024 | Residence in Bergen (Norway).
Cooperation with the above-mentioned partners continues
(Collaboration with Kidstime Deutschland e.V.
(illustration and translation services as well as graphic and web design),
representation via and collaboration with Hamburg’s artotheque “Kunstleihe Hamburg” (Germany),
art instructor at boesner Ltd. (video tutorial offers and online drawing courses)).
Teaching ongoing online drawing group (adults), individual online drawing classes (adolescents and adults),
drawing class in Spanish (adults) at Bergen Internasjonale Kultursenter
and ongoing private children’s art course in Spanish at Gyldenpris Kunsthall.
In development:
Ongoing drawing course (adults) in Spanish at Gyldenpris Kunsthall
and in English or Norwegian at Bergen Internasjonale Kultursenter (both from autumn 2025).
Studio seat in Gyldenpris Kunsthall (G-K Studios) in Paradis (Norway).
Member of the artist group “Habitat” in Bergen (Norway).
about my artwork
In my painting I nowadays like to work with aleatoric techniques, sometimes creating images in dual view (rotatable by 180 degrees). For some years now I mainly focus on political and social / societal topics. While I work more implicitly and symbolically in my paintings, my ink drawings are more explicit regarding the political / societal content.
The approach with aleatoric techniques is to initiate happenstances, which I then incorporate into the overall topic that I’m working on, and which I allow to lead me to new directions, new approaches, new ideas. So to speak: To cherish and accept the happenstance and uncontrollable and embrace, pass and forward it into a controllable and constructive way. So it stands for dealing with life itself and its events: First of all, the question of what I can influence and control – and what I cannot. I can set or initiate impulses more or less purposefully in a certain environment – but what ultimately emerges and how this impulse reacts with the environment is not always within my sphere of influence. Other coincidences and events also “come as they come”. What is again within my sphere of influence, however, is how I deal with it – what I make of it, and above all, how I evaluate it. So it is not only in painting that this is literally in my hands.
Playing with that, in a sense accepting chance, (further) shaping it, thinking about these processes, has occupied me artistically time and again and this kind of work and approach offered me a certain peace of mind.
Another area of focus is minimalist quick drawing with ink in small format, especially in a cross-art context (particularly flamenco courses and events, as well as music events), the appeal of drawing in its reduction to the essential and the very special kind of encounter and contact with the person to be depicted when painting and drawing live on site. In 2018 alone, around 150 drawings in ink and acrylic in connection with accompanying flamenco events and courses were created (not including drawings of musicians at music events).
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Since 2024, I no longer work with acrylic in my paintings, but exclusively with gouache instead.
More information on the approach to sustainability and ecological responsibility in my artistic work will follow soon, as well as more background information on my main areas of work in the appropriate place.
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