My life is sort of interwined with my profession, so I shall include both (if you will bear with me :)).

I was born in Belgrade Yugoslavia, where I finished elementary school. High school and college I attended in Boston, USA. I got a BFA from Museum School of Art in Boston, an affiliate of Tufts University, as a painting major. (I  must mention that those were the unforgettable  "flower power" sixties where, as an authentic member of the "hippie movement", I took part in all the happenings, social and political, that characterized that decade, including demonstrations against Vietnam in Washington, and Woodstock.)

After graduation and a brief and unsuccessful marriage, I decided I needed a change, and returned to Yugoslavia to start a new life -- a new marriage to a rock musician and a new career -- as a translator for Belgrade Television. After a few years, three children were born -- two girls and a boy, and  professiionally, I switched to journalism. Children grew, the second marriage started to fall apart, though it lasted almost 15 years, and my career flourished -- after several years as a reporter and a foreign affairs journalist, I reached a position of  editor of foreign documentary and satellite programs.

My artistic career at the time was at a standstill, too many other things happening in my  rather busy life.. But as children grew and I got divorced, outside events forced me -- I consider it luck -- to return to my original and true profession. Namely, political events of late 80's in Yugoslavia, emerging dictatorship and subsequent crumbling of the country,  left me, along with many other journalists critical of the regime, without a job.

After the  initial shock, I slowly  started to adjust and turned to my old love, painting, and a new love that I just dabbled with at the Academy -- ceramics. This time I was captured by  clay. Slowly, I remembered what I knew, learned new things, started to get into new -- artistic -- modes of thinking and  new, artistic circles. Trying to make up for lost time, ceramics is my sole, and full-time occupation, and has already given me a moderate taste of success, with an ambition to make a worthwhile mark in the future.

With regrets that I wasted so much time in the glamorous -- but stressful -- profession of TV journalism,  and seeing my generation as more or less accomplished artists, I rush ahead to take my place amongst them. Commercial success is of no interest to me (luckily, since at the moment  I live in a economically devastated society) since I have been modestly provided for by my family; so I am in a position to concentrate solely on the esthetics and creativity, where I hope I am covering ground in great leaps.

I have taken part in several collective shows, and am preparing my own of the late fall.

These are some of my works. Enjoy!