When you ask me "What's the driver of your art?", I'd say it's the desire to translate the mix between my love of life and my duty to remain optimistic, despite the small and big challenges that our lives and our society is faced with.

I have always loved to paint. But after years of abstinence from painting when I would have needed it the most (during my law studies...), I only rediscovered my creative self in 2011 when I started my first job after my legal clerkship and PhD, in the German office of a US-law firm. Our managing partner was a passionate art collector, so I had the privilege to be surrounded by great contemporary art, including Jean Alechinsky.

This vibrant artistic environment reignited my wish to be creative again. So I invested my first "big law"-salary into a canvas and acrylic colors and spent a whole Sunday painting on my kitchen table, inspired by the summer sky paintings of Greg Kwiatek in our conference room.

I haven't stopped painting since then. And over the years, little by little, through trial and error, frustrations and new beginnings, I found a way to be a painter an a full-time law professional. And then also a parent. And I kept my art practice and refined it while changing jobs and cities.

That's what gives me energy in times where hope and creative solutions are needed.