My Story

I was born in the Waldviertel, a quiet and rugged part of northern Austria, and now live in Vienna. Though I have become a city person at heart, I still feel deeply connected to the land – its silence, its vastness, its grounding presence. That tension between movement and stillness, between roots and change, runs through everything I create and shapes the way I perceive time itself – as something fluid, cyclical, constantly shifting between presence and memory. I have always wanted to create. For as long as I can remember, making art has felt like a kind of magic — turning almost nothing into something tangible. The paper and I had an understanding that needed no words.

Then, as I grew older, the silence came gradually. The harsher my world became, the quieter that dialogue grew. To paint means to feel, and at some point, feeling became too much. The canvas can be a mirror — sometimes too honest. Illness shifted my focus inward — toward healing, toward understanding what it means to be alive within transience and uncertainty. Those years taught me how transformation often happens quietly, in the spaces in between — where something ends and something else begins to take form.

Yet without art, something essential was missing. Becoming a mother was a turning point. It reconnected me with my own origin, with the quiet pulse of life itself. Around the same time, I trained as an art therapist — a path that deepened my sense of connection: to time, to stories both personal and collective, and to the invisible threads that weave our individual lives into something larger. Those twin currents — motherhood and art therapy — carried me back to my creative voice. From that place, I began to paint again — not as an escape, but as a way to listen.

My work as a painter unites skill and sensitivity — the precision of making with the openness of listening. Art, for me, is not representation but remembrance: a quiet act of freedom, an affirmation of our shared fragility, and a trust in the unseen rhythms that carry us through life.