I was born in Melbourne Australia. I am an Artist, Craftswoman, Humanitarian and Social Activist.

In 1977 I moved to Auroville in South India. Auroville is a universal township, a diverse community comprising people from 35 nations, living and working together representing the possibility of humanity as a whole. www.auroville.org.

In Auroville I have a studio where local village women come each day and we create beautiful hand beaded tapestries and other art adornments.

I have no formal education in crafts. Everything I have learned has been self taught. In action has been the learning process. The past 30 years I have worked with various mediums. My first product was Crochet shoes which became high heeled, feathered and beaded art pieces. These were sold in Obikos, San Francisco, Janis, Chicago, Zona, and Bendells, NYC and Nieman Marcus, Los Angeles. My work has been featured in the NY Times and the LA Times.

The past 15 years I have been involved with development work for the local Indian community living in or close to Auroville. My main concerns were regarding lavatory education, waste water and garbage management. I built the FIRST toilets in Kuilapalayam village over 15 years ago. They are public toilets; no private ones existed prior to time. This was the first effort to introduce the concept of hygiene and sanitation to the local people.

I also developed simple drainage systems to try to stop the unhealthy waste water that spread diseases like malaria and typhoid, lying around public water taps where everyone collects their household water in clay pots.

I introduced a road cleaning service financed by local businesses to try to control the ever increasing garbage. I developed a door to door garbage collection system that eventually will be sustained financially by the residents.

My beaded Tapestries help support native local families in Auroville.