Worlds of wonder and imaginative beauty that attract your perfect client and grow your audience.
As a graphic and communications designer with hands-on entrepreneurial experience, I build on more than 10 years of experience in photography and collage. I work alongside regenerative changemakers to create visual communications that convey beauty, authenticity, and incite action to protect and regenerate our places and planet. As a life-long student of regenerative development and living systems, I understand my clients and support them in translating expert knowledge into lively and easy-to-understand graphics without oversimplifying them.
Capabilities for Transformative Change
graphic design
collage art
art direction
Client: Really Regenerative CIC / Joseph Rowntree Foundation (to be released in Sept. 2025)
Project: Building on the first report, the follow-up report expands on the inner, relational, and systemic capabilities and capacities needed to catalyze place-based regeneration. The report weaves research conducted for JRF and Jenny Andersson’s experience and insights into regenerative practice and place-making.
Interpretation: The collage draws inspiration from my teacher Francis Weller, who taught me that grief work is similar to the alchemical process. For grief requires heat and containment — a vessel that allows our emotions to stay warm, fluid, and in motion. Alchemists saw the material process of turning lead into gold not as separate from the journey of soul-making. I interpreted and expanded upon alchemical symbology and recontextualized it to illustrate the process of cultural transformation, catalyzed by our tending to webs of relationality — a making-with our fellow human beings and more-than-human kin. This co-creation births new ways of being in the world and the emergence of alternative futures, represented in the collage by the appearance of two portals.
Enabling Place-based Community-led Regeneration
graphic design
collage art
art direction
Client: Really Regenerative CIC / Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Project: What are the conditions that catalyze place-based regeneration? And what is the evolving role of philanthropy in creating those enabling conditions? Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, these questions provided the starting point for the year-long research project that Really Regenerative CIC and Regen Labs Australia embarked upon. The result is a comprehensive report that provides an overview of observed patterns and strategic recommendations for JRF and the philanthropic field more broadly. My role was to translate the core patterns that emerged creatively, producing two bespoke collages and a report.
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The first collage was inspired by a quote from one of the interviewees and a pattern observed more generally among organizations receiving philanthropic funding. Grants often come with tight conditions that are counterproductive to emergent, place-based community-led work and the adaptive and disributive nature of living systems, in which energy and resources are exchanged freely. "How do we recognise that philanthropy has been a clot? How do we allow it to flow in a more distributed way?” The collage imagines philanthropic funding as a river in circular flow with tributaries: the life nourished upstream benefits the life downstream, creating thriving lifeworlds along its banks. In the centre, humans and more-than-human beings conspire to cultivate healthy soil from which balanced, wise, and integrative beings may come forth that take regenerative action.
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The second collage is inspired by the work of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ilya Prigogine who coined the term “Islands of Coherence”. In regeneration, the focus is not on a project but on place. The starting point of any project is the question of how the project can elevate its place to a higher order of vitality, health, and resilience by tapping into its unique potential. Hence, I created distinct islands with a unique character, woven together in relationship. The hands show the different roles of philantropy as weavers, convening agents of regenerative knowledge, and seeders of healthy soil, providing resources for regenerative action to take shape.
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Laid out hand-cut collage elements before they were scanned and digitally composed.
Testimonial
Navigating the transition to regenerative futures can be challenging. The departure from our current way of thinking, doing, and being is often hard to express in words. The transformation of systems to something we have not yet imagined is hard for even the most creative mind to do. It has been really vital for us to work with brilliant conceptual artists who can understand, interpret, and visualise the evolution of the future. Imagery reaches the inside of the mind and soul in a way words do not always achieve. The combination of both is powerful. Few people we know can do this. Niels can, and does. It has been a joy to work with him, to have someone who can unfold my tangled skeins of thought and pattern into powerful images that move and resonate with the people we are in this work with, and invite in. He is a patient and mindful partner, able to adapt and adjust to whatever is trying to unfold between the brief and the outcome. I am always moved, surprised and awed by the reference images he finds to express what I am trying to say. I recommend Niels to anyone, and am endlessly grateful for his thoughtful approach to the work we have done together.”
— Jenny Andersson, regenerative practitioner and founder of Really Regenerative CIC
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Growing Together - collage concept for postcard handout
concept design
collage art
graphic design
Client: BioMonitor4CAP
Project: Design a postcard to hand out at events and fairs, offering a fun and memorizable token of encounter as opposed to a traditional, dry, and text-heavy flyer.
Integrating the physical and digital experience, a QR code on the backside of the card takes people to the website landing page, where they can experience an animated version of the postcard.
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Together with the team, I identified the essence of BioMonitor4CAP and its approach to biodiversity monitoring. We designed a collage postcard under the theme of “Growing Together”, highlighting the collaboration between international project partners; between the scientists, farmers, and general public; and between humans and the more-than-human world when working towards the protection of biodiversity.
Once the final version was approved, my colleague Neirin Best and I developed an animation of the postcard design. Together they provide an integrated experience, combining the liveliness of motion with the nostalgic physicality of the postcard.
Imagining a digital Learning Commons
graphic design
collage art
art direction
Client: otherWise (forthcoming Oct. 2025)
Project: (preview) Part of a series of hand-cut and digitally composed collages, Tree of Life invites you into a realm that sits between the underworld and the sky above, balancing light and shadow, fertility and decay. Participants in the digital Learning Commons can explore the collage and click on more than 20 scenes. Each scene is home to a vast knowledge base and collection of essays, providing participants with an imaginative and playful learning experience. A highly detailed collage, Tree of Life features more than 200 unique elements. It reimagines the Major Oak in Nottinghamshire, England, as a site for human and more-than-human cohabitation and unfolding.
Temporics
graphic design
Client: Perspectiva
Perspectiva aspires to enhance our collective perception of life’s possibilities and find ways to protect and revitalize our shared and only home.
Project: For the launch of their online community and workshop “Temporics” which explored the concept and diverse experiences of time, I created a promotional poster design using digital collage. The design explores the concept of time-traveling portals and ancestral and deep time, connecting us to our more-than-human ancestors across eons.
Learning Journey Open Call
collage art
Client: Regenerators, 2025
Project: To promote the launch of their 2025 year-long regenerative leadership journey, I created a collage made of hand-cut and digital elements inspired by the founder’s dream that inspired the founding of Regenerators.
Brand Essence Collage
collage art
Client: Perspectivist, 2024
Project: Perspectivist is the regenerative agency. I created a multi-layered collage, tapping into the organization’s unique essence and brand voice, reflecting the magic of listening to and weaving diverse perspectives.
Multi-species Imagination
graphic design
Client: Sympoiesis, Regenerative Timelab, 2024
Project: For a collaboration between Sympoiesis and A Regenerative Timelab, I designed a promotional poster using paper-cut collage and digital gradient mapping. The result was a vivid invitation into a flourishing world, inspired by 80s psychedelic art.
Aliveness, individuated
Client: Masawa, 2021
Project: Founding visual identity for a (then) emerging mental wellness impact fund.
collage art
visual identity
Interpretation: Since mental wellness is a subjective experience, what we associate with a flourishing state of being is also deeply personal. I tried to portray this inherent diversity in subjective experience through diversity in the identities and facial expressions of the models, as well as through the choice of visual elements.
To truly be alive, we must tend to our wellbeing the way we would tend to a garden: take out weeds, prune parts that no longer serve the whole, and direct our love and attention to those aspects of ourselves we wish to grow and develop. Wellbeing like gardening, however, is a communal effort, and we must recognize that health and wellbeing are co-created. They are systemic qualities that emerge through togetherness and compassion. And while sometimes the invisible structures of our society run deep underground, they exert a powerful influence on our ability to thrive — often unequally.