It takes stubbornness, patience, passion and rage; you need to get a little angry. But, most importantly, it takes motivation; you need to want to create a good thing. When you start doing it, then comes diligence and other qualities.

What is invisible at first glance, what is modest and avoids attention; something that touches you, hooks you in and becomes important. Like those flowers – they are not glamorous roses, but meadow or roadside flowers that you don’t notice, but they are as beautiful, just in a different way.

Enamelling. It took an awful lot of experimentation to develop a feeling for what enamel wants, how to talk to it to make everything work. If the shade is not spot on, I immediately feel it. Enamel is something completely mystical. I love it immensely.

When you look at it and see that everything is fine. You develop a sixth sense so that, after making myriad mistakes, you can feel that with this particular piece you actually didn’t make any. You start to see some sort of inner truth that the outer image has to match.