Autobiography

Born in Germany, raised in England, now I'm at home in Switzerland.

At the age of 12 I gave up art lessons soon after the teacher called my work "banal", and I guessed it wasn't a compliment. She offered no help and I was advised that Latin would be more useful. A couple of years later I started drawing and painting by myself, but my education led to a science degree and later an MBA.

After several years working for big companies my husband and I started moving around the world: first to Switzerland (where I worked for Novartis and our two sons were born), and then to the USA and Japan where I became a self-employed business and medical writer. Along the way, I took watercolour lessons in Atlanta and Sumi-e classes in Tokyo.

We moved to Switzerland for the second time in 2000 and at last I had time to take up art seriously. During four years of study, including exposure to most media, a huge variety of subject matter and a graphic design course, I also started to exhibit and sell my work.

I started teaching watercolour painting in early 2006 and since then the range and number of my classes continues to grow and evolve. I am open to suggestions for new classes and am very happy to develop courses specially for groups who want to learn and work together.

In addition to teaching art I work as a business writer, translator and website builder. I live in Meilen near Zürich with my husband, our teenage sons and our dog, Dylan.