Hello, my name is Lieve ERICX, I'm an artist and an art therapist living in Belgium, and my favourite tool is definitely the Gelli Plate. I do everything with it: my art journal pages, collages, mixed media pieces and so on.

As I have a degree in Neurographica, I also love NeuroArt.

My main goal is to encourage as many people as possible around the world to be creative, and I'm doing that mostly through my Patreon page.

There is so much sorrow and pain in the world, so I would like to encourage you all to play more, to find comfort in the good moments of your childhood. With these photos of me as a child, I would like you to reflect some of the happy moments in yours and put them into your art. I'm very happy to introduce myself through these photos of a happy childhood.

I have five siblings: two brothers and three sisters, and I'm the youngest, born 11 years after the fifth. So I can say that I was a bit spoilt... you can see me here with my eldest sister and here with my eldest brother who is 18 years older than me. My childhood was perfect. I didn't have to worry about a thing. I had lots of toys, I loved animals and my mother allowed me to have lots of pets. I was a bit of a boy, as you can see in this picture, but that too: everyone in my family let me be who I was so that I could grow up in a happy and gentle way.

Now I have a husband and a beautiful daughter. I hope you enjoy my lessons.