Tone was born in Switzerland but spent most of her childhood and formative years in Norway. She came to Manchester in 1994 as part of a university exchange programme and never left.
Tone spent a summer during her studies as an apprentice in the pottery at the Norwegian Folk Museum in Oslo. Apprentices were tasked to reproduce old original pieces from the 17th century Pottery on a kickwheel from the same era. This is where her love for throwing as a process was cemented, and her interest in cultural heritage started.
When she is not making ceramics, she spends as much time as possible each winter skiing – in particular in back country away from the crowded pistes. Tone loves the frozen and snow-covered landscapes, and has spent most of her 30 years as a ceramicist striving to make work that evokes the same feeling she gets when she moves through this landscape.
In 2021 Tone received Developing Your Creative Practice funding from Arts Council England to develop her technical skills further. Her ambition was to upscale her collection and focus on creating large one-off exhibition pieces. The funding enabled her to take time away from what had become a production pottery way of working and to develop a slower, more considered, environmentally conscious and sustainable practice.