From the artist:

"As far back as I remember, art has always been a major influence in my life. My father was an architect and my parents collected art locally from the Detroit suburb where I grew up, and throughout their travels. It was in high school where I developed my love of metalwork, the cool feel, the malleability created with heat along with the textures, and shapes formed with a hammer. 

After a stint of traveling through the Caribbean for several years my husband, Steve Kuntz, and I relocated in Oregon in 1981. With the abundant driftwood found in this area, and encouraged by my husband, I got into wood sculpture. 
It became apparent after having our daughter in 1988 that it was a little difficult running a chainsaw, and listening for my baby's cry. It was then that I reclaimed my interest in jewelry."