I was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, country of the Old Masters Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch School. My love for the arts was inherited from my mother, who was a classical musician and artist. She became my first teacher in drawing and painting.

Growing up I would study the 17th and 18th century landscape painters in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, fascinated by the beautiful Dutch landscape with wide horizons and big skies. The hours I spend there in my teenage years, influenced my interest and love for classical realistic painting.

At age 24, I came to the French part of Switzerland where I worked as a registered nurse in different hospitals all over the country.

Later, while living for several years near San Francisco, CA, I studied classical drawing and painting. My art teacher, Rebecca Alzofon, who is an accomplished artist  in the Bay Area, San Francisco, became later a close friend. The time we went out in nature to paint, increased my love for landscape painting. I joined seminars, classes and workshops with well known artists.  Every day we went out in nature,  painting “en plein air” like the old masters and impressionists did.

Once having moved back to Switzerland, I started focusing on portrait painting, missing sunny California.  For the last fourteen years, I have continued my studies in art in the USA with artists: Rebecca Alzofon, Antony Ryder; Bob Gerbracht; Jim Smith; Matthew Archambault.

Paintings: portraits, mainly children’s portraits; landscape paintings.

Media: soft pastel, oil paint.

Art commissions: Switzerland; USA: California, Texas, Louisiana; Israel; Netherlands.

What I strive for, is capturing the subject’s true personality in a painting. It is an honor to me, to be the artist chosen to paint a loved one’s portrait.