I was born in Switzerland.

My father was a photographer, my mother is a well published author, my grandmother was a painter and I had an uncle who was a famous Swiss sculptor, so I was surrounded by creativity from birth.

Ever since I can remember I was complaining to my mother that school interfered with my ‘making-things-time’.

I was never bored as a kid; I was always making something and covered in paint or gluing my fingers together.

I sewed clothes and bedding for my Barbie and Ken from about the age of 7.

I’d been in kindergarten teaching and nannying since I left school and home at 16/17 but I’ve always taken part time courses in Art and Craft and small businesses.

I’ve done lead lighting, glass blowing, silver smithing, millinery, photography - including developing the images, sewing and hand painting clothes and bags, paper making, archival book binding, resin casting, glass casting, flameworking, pottery, basket weaving, screen printing, print making -copper plate and zinc etching, life drawing and painting, decoupage… and SO many more! I’m also really into DIY, I love my drop saw, drill and angle grinder. My studio had the framing put up but most of the rest I did myself. During Covid I tiled a bathroom using a ceramic cutting wheel to cut the 45 degree corner tiles and converted a hall stand into a hand basin & vanity.

Around ‘91 to ‘93 I had a hat stand with a friend on the streets of Auckland.

At the time I was part of a small central Auckland co-op called the Fish Tank. We were 5 young women in our early 20’s taking turns running the shop downstairs and painting our stock upstairs. We mainly made hand painted t-shirts and bags.

That same year I discovered a shop called Texan Art Schools, they represented students of Arts courses and young artists which planted the early in.cube8r seeds.

In 2000 I started a full time Fine and Applied Arts degree at Monash with a glass blowing major.

The whole 3-year full time course was painting, drawing, craft electives in metals/jewellery, ceramics, print making, sculpture… I was in heaven! I worked up to 5 part time jobs to stay afloat working in laundrettes over weekends and overnight nannying.

I’ve always loved colour, interior design and organising… the combination of all these and with a one year Dip Ed in Secondary Art teaching and the support of NEIS, in.cube8r came to life in 2007. 9 years of running, franchising and developing the in.cube8r model gave me a solid background knowledge in the world of Art and Craft.