About Me

I was born on the East-Rand and from a young age played around with pencils and watercolours. Art came naturally for me as my grandmother painted in oils, did pewter work and fashioned small figurines out of shells. She continuously encouraged us as child to draw, experiment and to be creative. I can readily say she was a major inspiration in my artistic life.

I studied art in high school. After attending the Teachers' Training College in Potchefstroom for 2 years I gave it up to pursue my dream to become an Interior Designer. This required 3 years at Wits Technikon. During my studies at Wits I encountered subjects related to Interior design, Architecture, Stage and Costume design, Photography, Design as a subject, painting and many more. During our studies we were constantly encouraged to use different materials and combination of materials - an approach that has remained with me even until today. During this time I developed a love for watercolours and rendering with pen and ink.

After my studies I worked for about 5 years as an Interior Designer at various companies. When our first child was born and I decided to stay home with her. But staying home with a young child inspired me to design a range of educational toys which I produced and supplied to educational toy outlets. During that stage of my life I finished a couple of paintings and started to play around with Acrylics.

As my children grew I continued to pursue my dream and opened an Interior Design Company and a shop with a like-minded friend. Business prospered and I progressed to decorating home interiors by applying different paint techniques and murals from time to time. Then we started to move around for a couple of years and painting inevitably landed on the back burner. 

I started to paint again towards the late 90’s but did mostly commissioned works. Around 2005 I started to use more media that I found stimulating, such as Acrylics. I have worked mostly in Acrylic up to now but will be painting more in oils due to the technological changes in modern oils. Drying times still remain a nuisance.