I was born in New Zealand to a Polish immigrant family. My family moved to Australia in the late 1970s. After completing my schooling, university and Chartered Accounting studies in NSW, I moved to Europe in 1995 where I lived and worked in Switzerland, England and Germany for 15 years.

My children and I then moved to Perth, Australia in 2011 and I finally leaped into a lifelong passion for art and began painting. Paints, canvases and easels have taken over my home and I paint at every opportunity I can get!

The aesthetics and creativity of my mother Teresa have always inspired me to never stop trying new things: “a childhood full of beautiful home-cooked international food, my father would joke ‘never the same dish twice, especially if he said he liked it’, superbly sewn clothes and furnishings and a zest for craft and colour- whether making her own leadlight windows, restoring furniture or creating flourishing and colourful gardens wherever they lived.”