When I was young my mother would always be painting and drawing. She would draw my brother and I while we were watching television, or she'd draw the scenery from the car while my dad drove us towards our holiday destination. She would doodle while being on the phone and always keep a sketchbook...

I recently got commissioned to make some drawings of typical Dutch dishes for a pop-up restaurant in Toronto, Canada. Every Sunday afternoon from 1 till 6 pm Dutchman Justin and his Canadian fiancé Alison host a 'borrel' in bar The Ossington on Ossinton Avenue. 'Borrel' is the Dutch word for having drinks. A 'borrel' is always 'gezellig'...

I had a wonderful day in Walthamstow, east London yesterday. I now totally get why this suburb is dubbed Awesomestow. A museum, vintage shopping, a warehouse filled with neon signs and a mircobrewery made it a great day out...

I'm currently working on some designs for a nightclub in Cardiff. The Kuku Club is a stylish, intimate venue with a Middle Eastern theme. The design is going to printed in one colour (copper on grey paper) - I think it's going to be beautiful. Thinking Arabian theme plus monochrome printing the shadow puppet animation The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger immediately popped into my head...

This year my boyfriend and I, instead of putting ourselves through the hellish experience called Christmas shopping, thought we'd give our families home made gifts. We decided to make it a collaborative effort. So my better half asked a befriended jazz musician to record a few jazz tunes in our living room, while I drew them, and a few items from our interior, for the cd cover...

The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules...

It's crazy but true, my pub carpet collection got a mention in the December issue of KLM's inflight magazine Holland Herald!! In case you're not flying KLM this month, flip to page 12 and see for yourself! If you haven't already, take a look at all the carpets I've collected so far (about 165!) on Flickr...

Ever since I read about how one of my favourite living artists Grayson Perry draws in front of the telly, I haven't been able to watch anything without sketching. It has really helped loosing me up (even without beer, though I've done some sipping a cocktail... I recently bought some felt pens, to go Grayson Perry all the way...

Yay, it's officially out today: the first full length album by the wonderful Miss Maud's Folly! With artwork by yours truly. Available physically from the band's website and digitally via iTunes...

I've had a few requests for prints of these birds I did in ink and Ecoline, and now I got some beautiful giclée prints made. They're printed on 310 gsm Hahnemuhle German Etching paper, which has a fine texture, like watercolour paper...