Renate has worked with porcelain for more than 40 years and studied painting on porcelain in Lausanne, Switzerland. She has also studied porcelain painting, turntable and moulding in Sevres, France and Trinidad, Cuba. Her commissions included a major restoration project for the German Historic Society of heritage houses on the North Sea , restoration of a private porcelain collection in Paris France and donations to a Jewish institution in Sydney Australia.

Renate is now practising in Sydney Australia