Growing up in Austria, nature was my place. School felt like a continuous interruption of my
freedom. Eventually I became a physical therapist. For ten years I loved my patients and they
loved me back. My family’s move to the USA allowed (forced) me to become a full-time mother. My
PT education got lost in the move, while my love for art and gardening led me to a degree in
landscape design. Life and work as a landscape designer in Seattle, WA, felt like heaven on earth
– until we moved again.
In 2005, by then 45 years old, I graduated from McPherson College with a bachelor’s degree in
studio arts, concentrating in ceramics and painting. Now, in my third life, I combine my experience
and my interest in the human psyche with both of my artistic loves by sculpting life-like and life-
size people from clay and subsequently finishing the figures in a painterly manner. I am also in the
process of obtaining my MFA with Fort Hays State University.
I have exhibited in numerous galleries and museums throughout the United States in group, solo
and juried shows. My work is part of multiple private and corporate collections throughout the
USA, Austria and Germany.
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