Vitae

Born in 1981 on Penang Island, she immigrated to Germany at the age of 25. In her early years in Penang, she received fine art training from Mexican artist Ricardo Chavez Tovar. But the art career had to give way to the practical demands of raising a family. Struggling with finances and raising children with little support in a foreign country, creative ambitions had to remain dormant for many years.

She began her artistic career at 42, marking an artistic rebirth after years of hardship. In 2023, she encountered lithography through a two-day course under German artist Eckhard Gehrmann at a local open-access studio—and has been unstoppable ever since. This discovery of lithography became not only a personal liberation but also the foundation of her creative identity. She found profound joy in stone painting and stone printing.

Her current practice mainly explores themes of self-identity, the immigrant experience, hidden diabilities, and feminism, which she translates into visual narratives through printmaking. She is actively engaged in a wide range of printmaking activities, creating works in her underground cellar and planning to establish her own lithography studio in 2026.

In her cellar, she works with an Ironbridge press and proudly owns an antique Krause lithography press along with 30 stones.

She has the best studio support dog named Michel. He is a rescued mutt from a Cyprus killing station.