From 1971 to 1975 she worked as a restorer in "Antikhof Bissee" near Kiel. In 1975 she did her Abitur on a humanistic gymnasium in Kiel. Between 1975 and 1978 she started practical studies and worked as restorer at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens (Greece) under Mr Klaus v. Woyski. Main areas were gild and silver-plate works as well as working with iron, copper and marble.

In addition she worked for the Ministry of Culture and Science in the classical restoring section for mosaics and fresco-painting.

From 1977 to 1978 she studied icon painting and gild techniques with Mr Stefanos Almaliotis in Piraeus (Greece). In 1978 she married and spent the following years in taking care of her 2 sons, Panagiotis and Martin. In 1986 she founded her own atelier in Nafplion (Greece) and participated until 1999 on a regular basis in the Mess "Technima - Greek Craftwork" in Athens with her own wooden craft and ceramics. In 1988 she had an exhibition with her own water-colour paintings in the Centre for Culture in Nafplion, followed by several exhibitions in the Galleries "Elena" and "L'Ermitage" in Kiel (Germany) in 1993.

From October until December 2002, restoring of the "Monument for the Filellines" at the Catholic Church of Nafplion.

Since 1993 she is settled in Nafplion with her own atelier and shop.
Here she started in 2000 an initiative to create new techniques in producing pictures raised in relief using recycling paper mixtures.

Her first exhibition in the Peloponese Folklore Museum in Nafplion in April 2000 was an overwhelming success.