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I graduated with a degree in Geography and German Literature in 1986 and worked for several years as a teacher. Always interested in the arts I finally attended an art college, by correspondence, and over a two year period I could improve my skills in aquarelle and acrylic painting.
In the summer of 2004 I discovered the art of glass beadmaking. Creating unique wonderful art in my studio has become a real passion for me. I love to take a painterly approach to glass using bold and brilliant colors and exploring a variety of techniques creating a painting in motion of colorful abstractions of flora and fauna using my intuition while working on surface design as a collage of shards, murrine, dots, a variety of stringer and twisties, layering colors and also playing with the ability to create depth and interest by working with transparent and opaque areas.
After a long time making beads I started 2009 making jewelry when I got the invitation to be part of the Bead Invitational of the Pismo Fine Art Gallery in Denver. I have the most beautiful job of the world and today I am happy to be a fulltime glass artist.
I was lucky enough to have the courage to live the life I love for 10 years now – a life in glass.
Exhibitions:
2009
• Bead Invitational, Pismo Fine Art Glass, Denver, USA
2010
• Convergence II – Adorning the Past, Present and Pretend, Juried Show with art glass beads inspired by personas of fact and fiction, USA
• Tempest – International Invitational Glass Bead Exhibition, UK
• Bead Invitational, Pismo Fine Art Glass, Denver, USA
• Group Exhibition “Glas wird Schmuck”, Atelier Eisch, Museum Gallery, Frauenau,
Germany
2011
• Exhibition “GlasKunstOrte”, Weiden, Germany
• Bead Invitational, Pismo Fine Art Glass, Denver, USA
• Group Exhibition “Glas wird Schmuck”, Atelier Eisch, Museum Gallery, Frauenau,Germany
2012
• Bead Invitational, Pismo Fine Art Glass, Denver, USA
• Group Exhibition “Glas wird Schmuck”, Atelier Eisch, Museum Gallery, Frauenau,Germany
2013
• Group Exhibition “Glas wird Schmuck”, Atelier Eisch, Museum Gallery, Frauenau,Germany
2013 – Admission to the Permanen Exhibiton in the Glasmuseum Kobe, Japan
May 11 – 8 July 2013, Kobe, Japan – Lampwork Glass Museum, Group Exhibition "Lampwork Beads"
June 2013 USA, New Jersey, Wheaton Village – Group Exhibition
Publications
The Flow, Vol. 3, Issue 4 - 2nd Annual Woman in Glass (2006)
Glas...Perlen...eigenArt (2008)
Bead Review 3 (2008)
The Flow – Winter 2008
Vlammend Glass (Holland, 2009)
Russian Lampworking (Moscow, 2011)
Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry: Photographs of Beautiful Contemporary Beadwork (500 Series), Lark Jewelry & Beading, 2012
August 2012 issue of the Soda Lime Times
Lammaga Vol.24, 2013
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