Nicolette grew up and lived in the Netherlands until 2014 when she and her family moved to Valemount to start a guest ranch.
   Nicolette has been crafting and making things with her hands her entire life. Her grandmother taught her cross-stitching, while her mother taught her sewing, knitting and crocheting. Her father, an architect, taught her to look differently at buildings and nature.
   She makes small wall-hangings using only cross-stitch for the family’s little store at Willow Ranch. Because she lives in a small rural town where there is little access to a variety of craft supplies and because she lives so close to nature, Nicolette uses discarded clothing as art material. She found her passion when she discovered recycled materials: ‘garbage’ jeans, used bedding, broken cinches, twine from the farm’s hay bales, and findings in nature – like sticks she finds on her walks and driftwood from Kinbasket lake.

   She enjoys incorporating her findings, her love for slow-stitching, and nature to create new art work. Using a broad variety of stitches, she sews by hand because, for her, it is a sort of meditation. Hand-stitching gives her peace of mind and clears her head.
   Currently, her work is shown at Mountain Driftwood Gallery, 1255 Fifth Ave, Valemount, B.C.