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: three-year apprenticeship in my family's pottery on the Monte Verità in Ascona, work experience in Eslau pottery 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, worked 20 years 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.