I picked it up years after finishing art school in the same way that I picked up several other techniques that interested me at first. Only later I realised that this was the real thing for me, and I had to drop all the others. I was inspired in my childhood by a book character – Pippi Longstocking – because she thought she could do things without experience: just start and try.

The first one I did was a large mural, it was for a wine cellar in a private house. The owner had seen my tiles in the gallery where I had recently held an exhibition, and he invited me to design a custom-made wall.

Every technique needed to craft a handmade tile mural has to be mastered: from shaping, mould-making and designing, to preparing underglaze, painting and then glazing. Besides this, I have been known to use wood or linoleum cutting, and the techniques of etching, screen-printing and monoprint.

Books, books, books as well as prints, engravings, traditional ceramics, textiles, patterns, natural history, manuals and scientific illustrations. Inspiration can come from many things such as a stone that has been removed from the pavement where the grass starts to grow, or a dream.