The first 9 years in USA and for the past 14 years in Norway. Always looking for new challenges, in 1999 she wrote her third book where she is combining her vast knowledge in different art mediums by teaching her many readers the techniques of painting both Norwegian Trolls and Rosemaling.
Trolls are the names on supernatural large creatures which live in the mountains.
The stories about Trolls are strongly flavored by fantasy. They are in modern times part of Norwegian folk poetry and fairy tales, but hardly believed in as anything else than fantasy beings.