Tina started creating at an early age. When she was 3, she tried to mimic her seamstress mother, by cutting into the priced heirloom family tablecloth. By the late 80's the talent of sewing, knitting, crocheting evolved and translated into bead, wire, resin and polymer clay jewelry.

Tina is greatly inspired and influenced by living on the Wild West Coast in the Unesco Biosphere Project on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

She believes that everyone has a creative way of doing things or some sort of skill, but sometimes it helps to have a little encouragement or to find that start. She creates not only to provide for her family, but forever experiments with new media to add to her knowledge base and it's satisfying to her to be able to share that with others.

Tina uses various techniques in a multi media kind of way. Her work is greatly influenced by where she lives and even though she has her set 'recipes,' she tends to create Art in an experimental 'what happens if' kind of way. Mood and weather influence as well, so one day the colors are earthy and bold, other times they are soft and pastel-like. Tina tends to swing into various directions on the pendulum of things rather than back and forth with just a couple. Although there is Rhythm in what she does, Tina believes in the possibility of Change.