Her parents allow her to go to art school. After graduating, Carla gets a job as an illustrator Side by Sidea magazine for lesbian women. Even though she works for the lesbian community, she does not dare to tell her parents and the outside world that she is also a lesbian. “It started to bother me that I kept it all bottled up, that I didn’t talk about it. At a certain point I decided to tell it.”
Artist Carla Emmink incorporates childhood struggles into paintings: ‘I couldn’t talk about it’
