Outside of work
Creative Projects
Drawing, painting, sculpture, and an ongoing woodcraft project — a running record of things made by hand since I was six.
Age 6–10
First boats
Crayon ships, small wooden hulls, and a painting proud enough to show the class — the earliest things I remember making.
2017
Where the boat started
The very first version of an ongoing woodcraft project — a plain hull with a simple cabin, long before rigging, sails, or paint.
Age 11 & 13
House & mountains
A perspective drawing of a house, and one of my first serious paintings — a mountain landscape made as a birthday gift for my dad.
Age 14
Planes, wolves, and a spiral stair
First-year high school artwork — a house interior drawn from imagination, two WWII aircraft paintings, and a wolf in ink wash.
Age 16
A mural in Innsbruck
Living in Austria with a view of the mountains, I painted that view onto my bedroom wall — mountains, sunrise, and a bit of home.
Age 15–17
WALL·E, a sculpted head, and handmade parallettes
A full-size WALL·E build, my first attempt at sculpting a realistic head, and a pair of parallettes built from scratch for training.
High school
Future Builders — a city in 2D
A speculative future city: organic buildings, elevator cabins moving through glass pipes, and space for nature to stay part of urban life.
High school
On the impact of social media
A painting about how social media promises connection but often leaves us more anxious, lonely, and distracted — myself included.
High school
Paper dress
A project on honouring nature using only paper. The base layer takes its texture from reptile skin; hundreds of crepe-paper flowers make up the outer layer.
VWO 5
A supersonic helmet
"For Protection and/or Perfection" — a concept army helmet with built-in binoculars, infrared, and hearing protection, built up from cardboard and paper mâché to a finished camouflage shell.
Recent
Digital drawing
Moving onto an iPad — an elephant calf, a black panther, a climber mid-competition, and a portrait of my mother hiking.
Now
The boat, today
Still working on the same boat, years later — full rigging, sails, and detail added slowly over time.
