About Isabella

Isabella Kocum was born in Switzerland and trained as a gilder and graduated at the Art School in Bern. Motivated by her Dance teacher Alain Bernard she moved in 1982 to New York to train at the Alvin Ailey dance school. She won a scholarship for Dance with residency at The Cité International des Arts Paris in 1988. After a life in dance she moved to London and returned to her gilding career and started with a teaching position at the City Lit. In 1995 she took up employment as a frame conservator at the National Gallery. Isabella began to create her work of polychrome wood sculptors and print making. In 2008 she began to use clay in her figurative work and learned the lustre glaze technique at the Beatrice Wood Centre for the Arts in Ojai California.