bio
I have always loved making things.
As a child, I loved spending Wednesday afternoons with my grandmother, crafting things together. We would play pretend all kinds of scenarios, like I was an architect redesigning her house, and I would draw these elaborate scale plans of where the new furniture would go, or I was a painter and she was visiting my atelier to commission a portrait that I then never delivered. She would buy me all kinds of crafting supplies and then encourage me to figure something out with them, and she of course always proudly displayed whatever monstrocity or masterpiece I ended up with. We would go to the store together and I would spend quite some time looking through everything for things I could potentially use.
I’ve recently rediscovered that pure, unadulterated joy of doing just that, taking things and gluing them together to create other things, slapping some paint on them to make them different, and completely losing myself in hyperfixation for a while. Just follow the random ideas and see where they take me. Browsing thrift stores looking for inspiration, bringing home discarded objects and giving them a second life in one of my projects (or, more realistically, a very long vacation in my supply closet).
In September 2025, I started an initiation course at SLAC in Leuven, putting me in a workshop for 4 hours a week, where I’m working on a life-size human sculpture alongside other, smaller projects. I’m being introduced to tons of different materials and techniques, and loving every second of it. Additionally, I’m getting a crash course in art history, which brings together my passions for the creative arts and studying copious amounts of information.
I don’t feel anywhere near confident enough to actively advertise and sell my art or take commissions yet, but if you’re interested in anything, please drop me an e-mail at amy@amyjeannine.be and we’ll figure something out.
themes & inspiration
I have a thing for all kinds of witchy and creepycute things, like potions, alchemy, magic books and scrolls, skulls and skeletons, which you will find in many of my creations.
In general, I am obsessed with pretty boxes, egg-shaped things, crowns and coin dozer machines. I love rabbits, both in general and specifically my own two fuzzballs, and I have a passion for video games. I acquired a few dolls that I want to make clothes for. It started with a made to move Barbie and matching Ken, but I’ve since found various dolls with different anatomies that are interesting challenges to sew for. I mainly discovered my fascination for creepy dolls and other weird shit.
materials
I love experimenting with all kinds of materials and styles. I enjoy doing all kinds of things: making both digital and physical art, painting using aquarel and acrylic paints, sculpting with clay or papier-mâché, building diorama’s using wood or plastic, sewing projectsvarious textiles…
I will find a use for everything I have lying around and can find in the local thrift store. I have a section in my supply closet for random stuff that I found or thrifted, that I know will end up in a project some day. When I’m looking for inspiration, that’s where I start.
My go-to materials in stock are all kinds of wooden parts, mostly clothespins and popsicle sticks, newspaper and wallpaper glue (for papier mâché), various scraps of cardboard, coloured paper and textiles, and of course all kinds of paint, preferably acrylic by Art Creations by Talens. To feed my skulls and skeletons special interest, I tend to always have some skeletons in my closet.
I enjoy building DIY diorama kits, though I usually end up not assembling the thing as pictured but use the individual parts for separate, original projects.
On my to do list to learn and experiment with: charcoal, pyrography, sewing machine, plaster.
I generally don’t like glittery things unless the piece really calls for it, and I tend ot have textural issues with polystyrene and wool, so you won’t normally find me using those. I dislike the tubes Van Bleiswijck comes in. I don’t like the smell and feel of oil paint and hot glue makes me uncomfortable.