About my studio

I work part time as a primary school teacher. The rest of the time I use for creative expression, illustration and graphic work under my studio name.

I do a lot of free work centred around my love of all things underwater and my love of nature and illustrative design. You can follow my process and ideas on Instagram, the finished pieces you can browse through on this website. These pieces are available for licencing and buying out right. I am also available to do work on commission. I don’t have an online shop at the moment but if you see something you like please fill in the contact form and I will get back to you with more details.

About me

My name is Inge van Bruggen. From as far back as I can remember I have always been drawing and making things.  I started out my professional creative life as a designer graduated from Eindhoven Design Academy in 1999. While working in interior design my fascination with architecture grew. I further educated myself in interior architecture, acquiring the title of interior architect from Utrecht Art Academy in 2007. Working as an architect allowed me to fully enjoy solving the challenges that designing in existing spaces inevitably bring. In 2015 I founded Studio Mola Mola to focus more on the drawing, illustration and graphic design side of my profession. In 2019 I went back to school and studied to be a primary school teacher. Now I combine teaching and teaching art as my professional life with free expression, drawing and illustration in my free time.

About the Mola Mola

The large, round, somewhat clumsy, Mola Mola fish derives its name from the Latin word for millstone. It was given its common English name ‘sunfish’  because of the animals habit of sunbathing at the surface of the water.

Ever since my first scuba dive I have been fascinated by fish and underwater life. The colours and patterns and characters of fish give me endless inspiration. That I chose a marine animal as my logo especially one that enjoys the sun as much as I do, is no surprise