Pressed Poppy Petals 2009 Painting

I live and work in the Bay Area, California, where I am inspired by my garden and memories of the visual influences of my formative years. The daughter of an architect, I was surrounded by German Bauhaus and later Turkish patterns and design. Having fled Germany as a girl and then living in Istanbul until a young adult, I absorbed minimalism and Moorish aesthetics. I finally emigrated to New York where I began my formal art training. My work is in the permanent collections of Berkeley Art Museum, Sherwood Museum of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens, London, Mills College Art Museum, de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Minnesota Museum of American Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Rutgers University and many other private and corporate collections.