I was born the 9th of July 1965 in Ascona,
a small town on the shores of the Lake Maggiore
in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland.
My father is Swiss-American and my mother Danish.
I live and work in a 35o year old town house
in central Zürich, with my husband Peter and our
small children Amalia and Orlando.

My education as a potter lasted six years:
a three-year apprenticeship in my family's pottery,
work experience in a manufacture in Denmark
and the two-year Studio Pottery Course at the
Harrow College of Art and Design in London
(now University of Westminster).
I run my own Studio since leaving college in 1988.

Growing up in an extraordinary family
encouraged me to have faith in my own vision.
My mother, textile artist Berthe Beretta,
spent 20 years working on a huge Goblin project.
She is daughter of Danish economist Ester Boserup
and Danish-Norwegian novelist Aksel Sandemose.
My father, Efrem Beretta, was the initiator
of the Museo di Arte Moderna in Ascona.
After a long career as a judge, he is now a painter.

His parents Efrem and Caterina Beretta
introduced me to pottery at the the Ceramica
San Rocco on the Monte Verità in Ascona.