Born and raised in switzelrsnd in 1955, she attended the Lucerne school of art to study sculpture in 1980. She then moved to dussledorf to study painting under the well known artist Gerhard Ritcher, acknowledged for his prominent use of alternative tools e.g squeegees. This use of tools an sweeping movements carries through to her work, layering thick paint with handmade or repurposed tools. Much of her work presents as completely inexplicable yet they make sense visually to the viewer. Her playfulness Comes through with the piles of colourful paint slathered onto a white back ground, strengthening the organic shapes. I find her work charming, it is clear that the incomprehensible movements show her search for her own visual language.

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unidentifiable bodies of colour feel familiar, they represent something we would find in nature. they just exist and that is enough in itself to send you mind spilling. this Is what drew me to her work, abstraction purely from subconscious justifying itself. it influences me to stop finding. reason for every mark I make and seeing where the appreciation and development of movements takes me.

she uses collage and print to bring in slightly contrasting focus points to her mysterious smears of expression. she was particularly influenced by etchings but Hendrick Goltzius using found images to print into her work but also drawing inspiration from their peculiar, bulbous muscles and exaggerated strength to inform her movement of lines.