What do you do for a living? As the years go by, I find it harder and harder to answer this question. 20 years ago I answered: Bookbinder.
That is the profession I learned. After my professional development at the Academy for Design in Kassel, I introduced myself as a paper and book designer.
Over time, my passion for paper folding grew immensely – especially for origami designs.
Then came artistic photography, cyanotype and my folding of natural materials.
For a while I thought I had to choose. Between book, folding and photo. When is folding art? When is the photograph more important than the folding?
When does the folding become an important element of the book? Until I realized that for me everything has to do with each other,
my different works complement each other and intertwine.

“The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”
Natalie Angier, US scientist and author

My very different works are all related to each other, one emerged from an engagement with another.
For example, I develop book bindings that incorporate original tessellations.
For Cyanotopie, I began to press plants; this in turn awakened the impulse to fold leaves, flowers, and other natural materials.
This opened up a world of materials for me, and as with paper, each plant folds differently.

In all my artistic works, the phenomena, patterns and structures from nature are reflected.
Light and shadow. Geometric wonders that nature produces in free growing just like that.
These I set – as well as my folds – in my photographic works artistically in scene.

“You women – get yourselves leisure and a room to yourselves.”
– Virginia Woolf –

This room for me alone is my workshop in the middle of the beautiful Wendland.
In the threshing floor of a two century old half-timbered house overlooking the fields, my works are created –
my foldings, photographs, bindings and commissioned works such as guests and family books/albums, folded lampshades or special advertising flyer foldings.
All my works are closely connected with this place, with the closeness to nature and the tranquility I find here in the Wendland –
as a counterpoint to my private and professional travels, which have always inspired my works.

areas of specialization
• adhesive-free bindings
• magnet closures
• origamitessellations
• cyantopypes
• photography