Growing up my parents fostered my creativity. Making things: conceptualizing,
designing, creating has always been part of my life. My mother passed her passion
for Fiber Arts on to me. She knitted and sewed. I learned both by observing her. My
dad, an engineer, encouraged me to assist him with projects. He taught me how to
hold a file and swing a hammer.
My career in metals, melding my aptitude for small scale and my interest in design,
started with a friendship to a young goldsmith. My curiosity prompted an invitation
to visit his studio. He introduced me to soldering and I fabricated my first pieces of
jewelry, 22 years ago. This euphoric experience led to an apprenticeship. Upon
Graduation from High School, having passed the entrance exam for two Art Schools
I decided to go to HANAU. The schools curriculum combines classical training in
the trade of gold-smithing with drafting, drawing and design. With the BA degree in
hand I found employment and had the opportunity to work side by side with a
certified master jeweler.
In 1990 I relocated from Germany to California, where I began to teach Metal-
smithing.
Over the last decade I have produced my designs and exhibited my work in Fine
Craft Shows and Galleries throughout the United States. For the past years this has
been my full time devotion.
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