D’Argo spent an “isolated” childhood, in which animals played an important part, in coastal San Diego. Her world opened when she was in high school and became involved in the punk scene in Hollywood that was decidedly defiant and rebellious. This involvement in the Hollywood punk scene and a degree in Fashion Design led to a career in the fashion world. For a decade she designed and manufactured a clothing line that was sold in edgy, rock and roll and avant garde shops throughout the United States, including her own shop in Hollywood, where she specialized in custom clothing for people in the music industry, especially the indie, punk, goth, and rock scene. She eventually sold her clothing business and partnered with another shop in Hollywood to design for their label. This new arrangement let her establish a home in the Sierra Foothills of California and return to a life of nature with dogs and horses.
Throughout these early phases in her life, there was always a nagging frustration. Art -painting, crafting, creating - had always been a part of her life but she felt she was always pushing this aspect of herself to the background. A pivotal incident during her life in the Sierra Foothills drastically changed her relationship with art. While horseback riding one day, her horse tripped and fell. The horse escaped with a few scrapes, but she suffered traumatic spinal and brain injury. Unable to return to her work, she sold her home in the Sierra Foothills and bought a secluded house on the edge of the Wao Hele O Puna rainforest on the Big Island of Hawaii. It is there that she rested, healed her brain, connected with and learned from several “Kahuna Wahine” (Hawaiian female spiritual practitioners), and focused on her art. She began showing her paintings in some of the more prominent galleries in Hawaii, and has been a full time, professional artist since 2004.
