Born in Reykjavik. Education: Icelandic College of Art and Crafts 1968-1972. Konstfackskolan Art College, Stockholm, Sweden 1972-1974. Artist residency in Nordic Art Centre Sveaborg, Finland 1989. Artist residency in Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2000. Instructor at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts 1975-1987. Member of Meistrai Jacob Art Gallery in Reykjavik (since 1998). Chairman of The Icelandic Textile Guild 1977-1979. Member of the Icelandic Textile Guild and The Association Icelandic Visual Artist. Travel grant from the Icelandic-Finnish Cultural Fund 1981. Artist stipend from the Icelandic State 1983, 1995 and 2001. Participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Iceland and abroad.

Motto: The Icelandic nature has been the influential in my art. I have sought inspiration in nature and worked from it in an abstract way. These are memory fragments of elements in nature where the combination of material and method is an important factor. My favourite theme is the fire that burns in the core of the earth, the fire’s mark when it bursts to the earth’s surface, the complex shapes and colour play of the lava that it leaves behind. It is great to be able to use old traditional material like the flax and morph into modern textile.