Interview

• How did you get into textile design?

  I trained at a knitting machine factory in the Danish countryside. The master artisan Ole Strange had a small production of fabrics made with an old vintage circular knitting machine from the 70s. He took me into his family and was like a second father to me.

• What do you do at your studio?

  The core of my creative practice is to embody the ambience of nature and historic spaces, and to transform them into physical materials and objects. I work with both traditional wooden looms and industrial digital machines, but I never create colours on the computer; it is always done by physically mixing yarns.

• You travel a lot. Does this influence your work?

  The studio is based in Copenhagen by the sea, but I enjoy working from nomadic offices at remote artist residencies around the world. The locations influence my work and choice of colours.

• What is your most memorable piece?

  For the National Gallery of Denmark, I made a translation of a painting from 1917 into a tapestry. It was a long, slow, unique, spiritual process. I experienced a sort of collaboration with the soul of the late master painter, Astrid Holm.