Karin was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her love for art started at a young age. She started her journey with pottery at the age of eleven years. Fine Arts and Art History was a major throughout senior school. She enrolled in a BA( LLB) degree, but soon realised that it was not her passion and switched to Art the following year. Her life took a different direction thereafter focusing on capitalistic goals in the corporate -and private sectors as well as entrepreneurial ventures.

Now, in midlife, she has settled in the picturesque rural Swartland, living a quieter lifestyle and focusing on painting and writing. Her painting has changed over the years from still life themes, waterscapes and koi(realism) to abstract figurative portraits.