Born of royal Irish-German artistic lineage, I was drawing before I could walk and reading at 15-year-old standard by the time I was 10. An avid escape artist, I had attempted to read every book in every house I visited by the time I graduated from school. (even the Bible (a giant fairy-tale tome) and Mein Kampf (couldn’t get into it at all))

Inspired by Blake and Yeats, I started writing verse at aged 15 and was published several times locally before I was 19. I achieved a degree in English Literature and Modern History at aged 21. I am represented, along with my talented mother, in the historical Book of Maynooth, on permanent display in the town library. 

At around this time I received my first commission from the Moyglare Stud Farm in Maynooth to commemorate 50 years of service from a loyal manager. I continue to offer commissions for every occasion.

My first social media account (Myspace – remember those?) was called ‘Femme Fatale with microphone seeks solace in recording studio’ and indeed part of that time was spent living in a recording studio. I have always painted and written to maintain mental health as well as indulge my lifelong interest in spirituality, yoga, meditation and energy work. After a certain time, though, just writing for oneself simply wasn’t enough. Apparently the world needed these words too.

I used to have recurrent dreams of running away with a rock and roll band or the circus. I entertained friends and family with poems and stories, and people used to ask me when was I going to focus on my writing…then one day in 2008 I, along with many others, quite literally ran away with the proverbial rock and roll circus.

For the past 15 years I have performed at festivals around the country, travelling with tipis and entertaining around campfires, encouraging and inspiring others to express themselves artistically. I have collaborated with diverse musicians and performers, circus and otherwise, including WOB! Dublin and THCXGRM.

I have used my performances to spotlight such horrors of our time as Direct Provision, the treatment of refugees and the homeless, animals and many otherwise under- or unrepresented members of society.  Performing regularly in the Underground, the International and the Tivoli Backstage/Drop Dead Twice – cultural and literary hotspots of an already culturally bleak-looking pre-pandemic Dublin; I enjoyed every mic opportunity given to me, though, as a sensitive, and friend of sound people everywhere; I’m no fan of mic drops.

In 2017 I launched my first solo collection of poetry, ‘8 Poems’ in the International bar.

11 poems, my long-awaited second collection launches this year, along with this website!

I continue to write and record and am always open to adventurous new collaborations.