Portrait

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Lyonel Feininger

I was 38 years old when, in 1993, I first started sculpting. I had always loved art in its various forms, but had not viewed myself as one of those who made it. Up to that point my interest in the human soul had been focused rather on social educational work with children and their families, and on my own engagement in therapeutic development and training and self-experience courses.

I first encountered with shamanism when I was in my late twenties, and, through this, an awareness of the NON-VISIBLE realm. I became very passionate about the development of human consciousness.

A deep longing grew within me to find my own unique expression in life. This culminated in the art of sculpting. With the support of Otto Richter, my former spiritual teacher, I took the risk and began “doing something with my hands”. My first sculpture seemed to emerge virtually out of nothing, and I grew to love this way of creating so deeply that I no longer wanted to live without it.