Studio Notes

Kitchen wall art often signals the room's purpose: fruit, recipes, coffee, wine. I wanted to draw something less obvious—a kitchen as a place where life is already underway. Evening in the Kitchen—a vintage-inspired Danish interior illustration in colored pencil. In Evening in the Kitchen, a woman stands at the counter while a book lies open on the table. A kettle, an oil lamp, and a few familiar objects establish the room without turning it into a still life. The scene is im

As a teenager, I filled notebooks with small scenes: a person beside a window, trees after rain, the corner of a room. I wasn’t thinking about style or nostalgia. I drew the things I found myself looking at. On the shelves at home were old Danish books and European storybooks, with illustrations dating from the 1940s through the 1970s. I didn’t study them formally, but I spent enough time with them to absorb their visual language: the printed texture, the looseness of a line,