Her mother went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Tilburg and earned the diplomas MO-A and -B in drawing, painting, art appreciation, etc, and taught at the K & D and NXX training in Amsterdam from 1966 to 1972. Between 1970 and 1986, then known as Hamida, she did experimental work in textiles and wool, both spatial and two-dimensional, and the city of Amsterdam has bought her work from that period, which was also exhibited in the Oosterpoort in Groningen, in the theater in Veendam and in Germany (Leer and Emden). From 1986 to 1996 she took place as an art therapist and worked as a creative therapist, now having a practice at home.
