Vegan cheese/Cashewbert
Eagerly, we've been waiting for these vegan creations to be ready for a first bite. The whole process takes a few weeks of turning, checking...
Stories from the in between finding their material as they find their narrative. Voices from both sides scratched in paper or print, layers of paint or photographs capturing time.
10 things I miss about Belgium right now
It's been more than a year since we were able to visit our home country Belgium. By now, we certainly notice the Swedish influence creeping...
This finally happened: Fujinon 35mm f1.4 for Fujifilm XT-4
Never did it take me this long to decide on a lens! Perhaps it’s because I’ve been working with Nikon only for so many years...
Learning online; Creative live, Skillshare, and Domestika review
My time at school has been a bumpy ride, and I was actually glad when I had that degree and I could start my own...
New print design: What time hides (available on Redbubble)
New design at the Redbubble shop! It's called 'What time hides'. (<-- click this link to get directly to the overview of all the products...
Vegan raspberry cheesecake
The sun was out, shining happily through our kitchen, and filling the air with spring joy. It inspired Joeri to already bring the taste of...
Visiting old mines in Sweden
During the Easter weekend, we took a few days off together to go out and explore our area. Lately, we've been combining my fascination for...
A new skincare routine
A few years ago, during a cold Nordic winter, I was rather shocked when I saw myself in a photograph. Being a photographer, I am...
Home made vegan cheese, work in progress
I guess it runs in the family, or at least in Joeri's family. Back in Belgium, his grandfather used to make plattekaas, which I think...
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter everyone! Most years we dive into some delicious Belgian chocolates- we love the chocolate eggs from Leonidas! But this year, being far away from...
Watching in March
1.Ammonite From the moment that I saw a short trailer, I knew I had to see this film that is loosely inspired by the life of...
Self-portraits with the Fujifilm XT-4
The setting of this shoot: a foggy morning on a frozen lake. A day on which I had other plans, but seeing this moody landscape,...
Small pleasures #5
Perhaps spring is sneaking into my life in ways beyond my choice, but I thought it was about time to clean up my rusty knife...
New pattern design: Riverside
Inspired by the beautiful song 'Riverside' by Agnes Obel, I designed this pattern. The interpretation of a song is always personal, but I wanted to...
Small pleasures #5
These boots have been through a lot, but I try to keep them going and I find it super fun to brush off the dirt,...
Wednesday Wanderings
The snow is gone for now and although I'm definitely not ready for a new warm season, this little break filled with sunlight feeds our...
Selling artwork on Redbubble/Society6
Both Society6 and Redbubble are websites where visual creators can make an account to sell prints of their work. In this post, I'll be sharing...
Crystals// Dalarna
A find from a while ago, but now trying to clean it up. If you're reading this and you have a good suggestion for me: I'm...
The girl with the dragon tattoo, USA movie locations
Earlier this year we started to visit movie locations of the Millenium movies, based on the books by Stieg Larsson. While I'd love to see...
New design: Ammonite
They are caught in rocks, still for millions of years while the world had changed. However small they might be, their traces can still be found. Isn't...
Small pleasures #4
Dragons in the sky! ...
Wedsnesday wanderings; rock hounding
I've been a rock collector for as long as I can remember. As a child, I loved taking home pretty rocks, and I never outgrew...
Small pleasures #3
Catching a glimpse of another perspective. Flying in the air or hanging upside down on a swing. And sometimes when I'd like a different thought, I...
Leather notebook case, first try
Curiosity and the hunger to learn something new led me to leatherwork. Every little project I pick up a bit more skills and a bit...
Small pleasures #2
Every single day, watching my dogs play brings me tremendous joy. It's easy to feel lighter and more joyful with them around. All with their...
Wednesday Wanderings
Nature keeps surprising us in ways we couldn't even imagine and we learn, adapt, and find joy in numerous ways. Minus twenty degrees Celsius made...
Reading in February
1.Greene Robert, (2012), Mastery I've been really curious lately about the concepts and theories behind mastery and their effect on our lives. Often, mastery is seen...
Rawfood peanut butter cookies
Especially in these times, anything and everything is a great reason to add a bit of celebration into your life. For Valentine, I've been crafting...
Weekend project: leather notebook cover
Weekends are for making a mess in the sun, trying new things, and testing new ideas. And on these beautiful days, I've been working with...
Small pleasures #1
"So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures- while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures,...
Fenne’s wishlist
... Just a place to keep my list. Rock Tumbler. Rock Tumbling for beginners advised Lortone or Thumler as brands. So far only found Lortone. - 2...
Trying new things: soapmaking
Scents and textures have a big impact on our wellbeing, more than we realize. I've always been very sensitive to smells, colors, or weird textures...
Watching in January
1. /The social dilemma,Netflix 2.Kärlek och anarki, Netlfix ...
Wednesday Wanderings
Rare days of sun enjoyed to the fullest. Feeling just enough of that light on our face to charge the clouded batteries. ...
Nature inspired IPad cover
A new year, a new cover for my IPad, chosen to inspire and fuel future creations but also as a bridge between the analog and...
Fujifilm night photography
How could I not think about this sooner? It's been ages since I last photographed the Swedish winter darkness. And dark it is. It is...
Reading in January
1.Newport Cal, (2016), Deep work, rules for focused success in a distracted world, Grand central publishing. 2. Larsson Stieg, (2005), Män som hatar kvinnor, Norstedts. (Swedish version...
In the footsteps of Blomkvist and Salander
The holidays are over, the light will return but winter is only getting started. A good time to explore a fun side project like visiting...
Wednesday Wanderings, a muddy walk
So far, the most gloriously sunny day of December, with at least one minute of sunlight! :-) We squeezed this beautiful walk up the hills in...
Belgianized Lussekatter
Lussekatter/lussebulle/ Lucia saffron buns, Mostly eaten during the advent here in Sweden, especially on the 13th of December when Santa Lucia is celebrated. Girls in white...
Wednesday Wanderings
I wish I could share not only a few photographs of our walk but also the soft smell of pine trees in foggy air and...
Reading in December
1.The art of making memories. Meik Wiking ...
Movies that fuel my inspiration
1. The dreamers 2.On the road 3.The science of sleep 4.Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. 5. Coraline 6. Into the wild 7. Happy go lucky 8. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 9....
Watching in November
1. All the bright places. 2. Sorjonen/Bordertown -The boys in the band. (2020, Netflix) ...
Wednesday Wanderings
Autumn is such a special season full of opportunities, especially to explore. When the heat moves away and leaves and grasses change colors, hidden paths...
First snow!
There is something quite magical about that first snow, a hint of nature's magic falling gently from the sky. It resonates to childhood joy and...
Cinnamon bun day!
I hardly ever eat sugar, unless when there is something to celebrate. Since we haven't joined a party since Covid/March, this cinnamon buns day is...
Leather craft experiments
A few weeks ago, a new camera joined the pack. An unexpected mirrorless one with a bit of a vintage look that reminds me a...
Time for books
Opinions are loud and cheap these days and especially with COVID-19 wandering around the globe, the digital screaming tries to take over. Rather than facts...
The ultimate summer feeling, 3 color lino
Summer, that's swimming in the lakes, eating fruit from the garden, lots of sunshine and marshmallows evenings by the fire. Of that last one, I...
We’re building a cabin
Most of our summer plans fell through. Friends had their flights canceled, color codes for travel got in place and today’s world is simply not...
Reading in August
- Verhaeghe Paul, (2015), Autoriteit, De bezige bij. -Verhaeghe Paul, (2019), Over Normaliteit en andere afwijkingen, Prometheus. - Slavoj Žižek, (2020), Pandemie- Hoe corona de wereld verandert. ...
A hint of nostalgia with analog film overlays
When I learned photography, the techniques, settings, developing,...
Happy summer solstice!
Last week, I stood eye to eye with a young fox. Only a few weeks old. I thought that the cute creature would quickly run...
Wednesday Wanderings (31)
All of a sudden summer was here. Out of nowhere, it seemed after a spring dominated by snow and hail. Sometimes it felt like summer...
Square eyes
Our eyes grow square as we live through the screens- a world on fire burning holes in our brains. Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu...
Reading in May
- Schoeters Gaea, (2018), Zonder titel #1, Querido. - Pressing Matters - Coronavirus, the Hammer and the dance. (online article) ...
Watchlist May
- Patrik 1,5 - The half of it. - History 101 (Netflix) - A secret love (Netflix) ...
A change of birthday plans
All the plans that we had for my birthday were messed up as both a print workshop and my friends' trip to Sweden got canceled. "So,...
Corona quarantine, week 9
It's been...
Jack Kerouac quote
Probably my favorite line ever....
Watchlist April
1. The marriage story (2019) 2. Unorthodox (2020) 3. Valhalla murders (2020, original version) ...
Spring is here, is it?
Only a few weeks ago I was still playing with the ice in that first warm sun of the new year. The movement of melting...
Body Play
Body play. Looking for some upside down inside out bending and balance the other way. Eating the dust too sometimes and that’s okay 😄...
Tetra pack printing
It's fun, easy, cheaper than printing with plastic or copper and I really like the dirty effect + I won't be able to get new...
Reading in April
1. Spinfluence. 2. The printmaking ideas book, Frances Stanfield and Lucy McGeown 3. Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism 4....
Corona quarantine, week 1
It's been a week since my home country, Belgium, went in lockdown. Highways are empty, schools and bars closed and people collected toilet paper for...
Reading in March
- Ons creatieve brein, hoe mens en wereld elkaar maken. By Dick Swaab. (it wasn't finished yet) - Wat is een Kunstenaar/ 33 artists in 3...
Watchlist March
-Matthias Steiner's emotional weightlifting gold in the 2008 Beijing. -Ludovico Einaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic" - The movies that made us (Home Alone) - Pandemic (Netflix) - Freud...
Inside my sketchbook- model drawing in Antwerp
Recently I joined an evening of model drawing at DOP platform vzw / Tekentuig - and with all chaos in the world, it feels...
Inside my sketchbook
Drawing out loud, doodling and getting ideas quickly onto paper before they disappear (and maybe never return!) This one above is a page with sketches for...
Popping sugar brain
I love chocolate. All chocolate, I thought, until one day I took a bite of an easter egg only to discover a horrendous feeling on...
The old + the new
All the things I've learned to avoid as a photographer: dusty negatives, scratches, light leaks or grain,...
The happiness factory
One concept, one sketch, 3 different end results- this is the process behind the Happiness Factory. While my dogs were quietly sleeping in the sun, the...
Blue ice
We drove home after a sunny hike, looking for cabins in the woods. As we had finished the last sandwiches and tea, Joeri decided to...
Watchlist February
1. The L-word, generation Q 2. Wallander- Brandvägg (2006) 3. The mind, explained. (Netflix) ...
Reading in February
Ons creatieve brein, hoe mens en wereld elkaar maken. By Dick Swaab. Maria Lassnig, Ways of being.(Dutch edition) Pressing matters magazine Suster en Wiebke ...
Reading in January:
- I know an artist (the inspiring connections between the world's greatest artists) by Susie Hodge, illustrated by Sarah Papworth - Hockney- Van Gogh: the joy...
DIY holiday presents
This year, I decided to make most of the holiday presents myself and these wooden tree decorations were one of the gifts. They are slices...
January movies
1. Rocket man. 2. Handsome devil 3. The untold tales of Armistead Maupin 4. The secret life of pets 2 5. The Laundromat 6. Le jeu ...
-30% at Society6 29/12- 1/1
First of all, a big thank you to everyone who has been supporting my work so far, either through my shop, assignments, on Society6 and...
Just a perfect day
The air was crisp, the sun was out and I remember saying that it was actually the most perfect day to be outside. I made...
November treasures
November treasures with the beautiful work of: GRAFIXX portfolio, skull stickers from Studio Maddy, cards and zine with drawings by Penelope Deltour, thoughtful words by Jens...
Featured in Pressing matters!
The world of ink and print is of unmistakable importance to my work and perhaps even my wellbeing. Big words? In a fast world, the...
Like OMG
When traveling alone, some things that I might not notice otherwise, push themself to the front of the row to get attention. In this case,...
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