Who am I

Letting dreams come true, making art to escape the real world.

Hi! My name is Anke and I live in Belgium. Since I could pick up a pencil I have been drawing, making silly art out of ordinary stuff lying around the house. I graduated art school when I was 18. I wanted to start my dream by going to Art College but I didn’t got accepted. Thereafter I followed my childhood dream of becoming an art teacher in high school. However, life happened and I ended up abandoning this project after 6 months. Eventually I took a course to become a florist which I did for several years, but the artist in me wasn’t fulfilled. Not knowing what I wanted, I tried a few things, failed a lot in life and then Corona came. Like many others, I lost my job, but since I wanted to change direction, I grabbed the opportunity to go back to College to became an accountant. I graduated college when I was 30, got diagnosed with AuDHD while I was in college and life was still the same but yet different. After almost 3 years of working as an accountant, my brain shut down. Living became the hardest thing in the world to me. To all people who are artists who feel like your life doesn’t feel like it’s yours, ‘are you still being an artist?’. I’m still trying to take a moment to rest after 3 months being home and it’s still hard. It took me nearly 3 months to come to realize that I had neglected the artist in me, for years. I always kept busy with making small stuff but it wasn’t enough to keep the artist in me alive. Now I have the time to take a moment and take the next step in my journey to become a true and established artist.

Pappie, ik mis je en je was mijn grootste supporter, dankjewel om nooit op te geven.
Daddy, I miss you and you were my biggest supporter, thank you for never giving up.

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