In a world that doesn’t slow down, I believe in creating spaces that do.

Slow, tactile art practices help you feel time differently by anchoring attention in your hands, senses and breath.

Pause & Create

About me

I’m a zinester a beekeeper, an all-round crafter.

Aside from zines, I work with weavings and textiles, book structures and assemblages.

You can buy my work online.

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🐝What to expect? 🐝

Weekly(ish) emails featuring:

  1. slow life down with intentional, tactile art-making.

  2. Free printable zines about my own ‘slow art’ practices & what I’ve learned along the way

  3. the occasional peek from behind my writing desk: notes on writing a folklore-based novel as shared in Rathkill Island, the mess, and the making.

(personal favourite) poetry & fiction publications

A Perfect 35° - poetry - The Milk House

Medulla of Hair - flash fiction - The Stinging Fly Magazine

Something About the Days Getting Shorter - short fiction - Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure

Displacement - flash fiction - apt literary magazine

Jail - short fiction - Crannóg literary magazine

Talking comics (in Dutch!) on the Bij Van De Ven podcast

In this comics-focused special episode of the Bij Van de Ven podcast, I talk about my three favourite comics: V for Vendetta, 30 Days of Night, and The Killing Joke. In a previous life I founded and ran a women-centric comicbook website and community called, fittingly, Girls Like Comics (R.I.P.). What is At Van de Ven? A Kempen Podcast about music, comedy, comics and more. Presented by Flemish Kempenaar and comedian Koen Van de Ven.

Zinespiration: can funny stuff be found in everyday life?

In this episode of the zinester-interview series Zinespiration, I talk to Ryan of Pocket Thoughts Zines and Craig from Five O'Clock Zines about zines (duh), art, vintage WWF (yes, seriously, wrestling), and the humour you can find in everyday life (that you then put into zines and art)!