The following is from the website of the artist, who was born in Tanzania, Africa, and who, from 1983, has lived in Pietrasanta, Italy. She studied at the University of Cape Town and taught sculpture at the Cape Town Art Centre and to the blind at the Touch Gallery in Cape Town.

I started my career as a sculptress in the 60's carving simple bird and fish forms much influenced by Brancusi. As I gained in confidence, I started to carve rather abstracted female forms mostly inspired by drawings I had done from models. Now my influence was mostly Henry Moore.

In 1976 I traveled to Carrara, Italy to learn to use pneumatic tools and worked for three month learning more about carving marble f...