About
Who am I? I am an African – at least I was born one. I am more of an Afro-centric European than an Euro-centric African! I grew up in central southern Africa, my fertile imagination nurtured by stories of German princesses and Bavarian forests, by Swiss eidelweiss and English snowdrops. All these things I had never seen.
I started drawing as soon as I was able to develop enough small muscle control to hold a pencil – and I have never stopped. Surrounded by a family of constant readers, it is hardly surprising that my compulsion to draw and an almost genetically programmed predisposition for consuming the written word, should somehow combine. Thus I have become a story teller who illustrates for children – both with words and pictures. Almost all my books are inspired by my home – Africa. I try, and shall continue, to give the children of Africa what I did not have… stories about home. And, hopefully, to nurture the fertile imagination of some child in Germany or Sweden or Alaska, with all those things they have never seen.
There are many of us now – those who seek to capture a little of the soul of Africa and immortalise it on paper, along with all the other little things that touch our lives and strike a chord. 