About my Work

To preserve a precious cultural heritage like batik it is necessary to keep it alive though new perspectives.

As I study batik and its history and the deep culture surrounding it here in Indonesia a rich background emerges from which I draw inspiration. In ancient times, as now, the energies that come from nature interact with culture through the artist and her use of the patterns of batik. As I draw with a canting feelings arise from deep within me that batik allows me to direct straight onto the blank cloth.

The attraction of the medium of batik for me is the transformation with my own hands of the two-dimensional surface of the blank cloth into a three dimensional world of ideas and imagination. This I mix with my personal touch and the “wabi sabi” of my Japanese background to give rise to something mysterious and hopefully appealing.