Maëlle Pouppez – fiber artist

Biography


I am a self-taught contemporary textile artist and ritualista living in Belgium durin the year and in Bulgaria for the summer.

At the age of 13 I started taking my reflex camera with me everywhere documenting and developing my analogue photographs in my dark room, calling the local photographer for advice as my films came out all overexposed at first. (thank you Jan Leemans!)

 

After studying communication, I went living abroad and started creating art again. Chile, Naples, Montreal, Finland: these long stays have definitely influenced me and my work.

In 2008 I became a mother for the first time and we decided to settle in my childhood home in the countryside of a small town in the North of Belgium with Nedko, my beloved one. In 2011 we had our second child and except for bulgarians summer we became more sedentarian, discovering the advantages of having a real studio to create and be inspired.

Both or our kids go to the local waldorf school and while they are learning all kinds of interesting things, we are creating in our art studios in the old stables.