Who it's for
Art students
You chose something you love, and that's exactly what's now being pulled at. Feedback every week, comparison every week. Amid all those voices you're trying to hear which one is yours.
What you're running into
Being judged on something that isn't finished yet.
Your work is still becoming, but it's weighed constantly. By tutors, by fellow students, by yourself. You learn at lightning speed what counts as 'good', and lose track along the way of what you actually wanted to say.
There's the comparison: the one who seems to make everything look easy, the other who's already exhibiting or performing somewhere. And the question that always sits underneath — do I even belong here, am I good enough, am I choosing the right thing.
And then there's the approaching year when it gets real: no more structure, no more assignments, just you and the question of whether you can keep this up.
Creativity in your life
You're creating more than you realise.
At school, creativity means assignments, technique, concept, presentation. But you're also making your life. You're building friendships, a taste of your own, a way of handling setbacks, an idea of how you want to live.
That's the same creative movement you use in your work: putting something into the unknown and seeing what it does. You're already good at that ability — you just don't yet use it consciously for yourself.
Once you do, your work becomes less of an exam and more of a language.
When you're out of tune with it
What it feels like when your own voice disappears.
When you mostly make what's expected, enjoyment goes first, and then your sense of direction. It stops being about what you want to say, and becomes about whether you survive it.
- You make what you think the tutor wants to see.
- You scroll past other people's work and feel emptier afterward.
- Procrastinating until the pressure forces you — and calling that 'your process'.
- Doubting whether you belong here, though no one has ever said otherwise.
- You've started making for the grade, not for yourself.
What coaching does here
A place, for once, where nothing gets graded.
I'm not a tutor and I don't give feedback on your work. I help you tell apart which voices in your head are yours, and which belong to the school, the market or your parents.
We slow down, look at what genuinely draws you, and search for a way of working that gives you energy instead of costing it. Practically too: making choices, setting boundaries, daring to choose what not to do.
For students I always look at what's possible on price — no need to make that awkward.
Ways of working together
What the four ways of working look like for a student.
No extra grading on top of the grading you already get. Every format below is meant to create room, not add another obligation — and on price, I always look at what's possible.
Breakthrough sessions
For the acute moments: right before a presentation, after an interim assessment, or when you doubt whether you want to finish the course. One conversation where you can say everything you can't say at school.
Tailored coaching journey
For when comparing and procrastinating have become fixed habits. We work on your own yardstick: what do you think is good, and how do you hold onto that in an environment that judges constantly.
Artist's Way
Twelve weeks that run alongside your studies and do exactly the opposite: no result, no grade, just practising your own voice. Many students rediscover here why they started in the first place.
Creative mentoring
Mentoring around your graduation work, final project or first steps after school. I don't give feedback like a tutor, but help with the process, the choices, and how to keep it up.
Fancy someone thinking along with you?
Come by for a conversation. No grade, no judgement, nothing you need to bring.
Prefer to get a feel for it first? There's a free Friday morning drop-in at my home in Utrecht, every Friday between 9 and 11am — 20 to 30 minutes of talking things through, no strings attached.