My artistic work focuses on the intersection of nature and culture. Born in Germany and now residing in North Carolina, I lived in Ghana, France, Great Britain, and Australia before moving to the United States in 2001. Together with travels to countries as varied as Italy and India, these different cultural frameworks have shaped both my life and my art. Since 2020, we live for a large part of the year at the shores of the Albemarle Sound, near Kill Devil Hills on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. This environment has become the inspiration for my current work which explores the fragile ecosystems of the seaboard, where the impacts of global warming, human expansion, and nature’s resilience create a beautiful albeit precarious environment.
My journey as an artist started almost thirty years ago as a traditional, self-taught quilter. After taking numerous in-person and online workshops, I decided that it was necessary to acquire a more formal education. Between 2018 and 2020, I completed an advanced (Level 4) City and Guild accredited course with the School of Stitched Textiles, for which I was awarded a Certificate of Excellence: Best Advanced Practitioner. To expand my skills, I then completed a two-year Master Practitioner Course, which emphasized design skills and artistic development. Since then, I have developed my unique visual language to integrate stitch, paint, and photography.
