Location : United States
  I found my passion in doing large abstract metal wall sculptures using one of my favorite tools, a welder. My canvas is intricately woven pieces of metal, intertwined into a beautiful chaos that lets the mind see what it wants to see. My work is unique because I bring a feminine touch to a masculine trade. I am a self taught action painter, drawing inspiration from the music I listen to while I create my masterpieces.
Born and raised in Calabasas , Ca and having my Dutch mother and English father take me to every major museum in Europe every summer vacation when we would stay out there, has had an influence on me that you can see in my work today, with Jackson Pollack, Salvador Dali and Auguste Rodin's work all particularly standing out to me.
I never really knew that I had this artistic streak until I began to work for my friend and fellow metal artist, Omar Wysong. One day after cutting out the patterns for his steel agave designs, I went to throw away the scrap metal left over and I saw something beautiful in the way the pieces fell on the floor. So I asked if I could use the scraps that were being thrown away so I can make something for my freshly painted white walls, as I had just been fixing up my house and had nothing on the walls. The very first piece I made was not welded together when one of my kids knocked it down and I could not put it back exactly as it was again so I learned how to weld so that couldn't happen again. I played around with colors and different textures, mixing flat, bold colors with metallic copper and wire brushing off some of the layers showing the different colors underneath, and actually making indents in the steel and using no color on some. I found that I kept getting inspired to create something new, different and unique, and I really haven't been able to stop myself ever since. I feel a compulsive need to keep creating and it gives me great satisfaction when I am finished with a piece.
Since discovering this talent, which I was surprised to learn I even had,everything has changed for me. I no longer feel the emptiness of that dreary mundane existence of an unfavorable past with no light at the end of the tunnel for the future. Instead I find myself getting up every day with purpose and direction and hope. I am filled with gratitude and I am filled with satisfaction as I gaze back at something I have created. It has awakened an incessant need to keep creating and keep evolving in my art.
I currently live in Los Angeles with my fiance and three kids and for once I am comfortable in my own skin and feel I am where I am supposed to be and doing what am supposed to be doing.