I own and operate my own studio since 2007. My husband and I were building our house at the time. I was eager to customise tiles, sinks, and other features of the house, so we equipped our home with a ceramic workshop. A feature on this in a well-known German magazine led to me receiving many commissions immediately.

I built an object for the North Rhine-Westphalia State Prize competition in 2021 and it collapsed in the oven, losing its original shape. I dismissed it as a failure, tried again and the second one turned out just as I had hoped. After a while I got used to seeing the two shapes side by side, and found them to be particularly beautiful. I submitted the composition, and I was even happier when I won the prize.

In the beginning, I experimented to see if I could influence the deformation of the object. I learned to work with the porcelain and not against it, not to label an alleged mistake as a failure, but to distance myself and take a new perspective on it. Moreover, I was taught by work that this unpredictability has its own distinctive and lively beauty.

In crafts, to me it means, above all, making things that you enjoy surrounding yourself with. For me, that means handling material well and with confidence. In my view, this also includes a good sense of design and experience.