Hazel is a visual artist who enjoys rummaging through her surroundings for its little known stories, the intimate, and the precious mundane. Such curiosities were being employed in her body of work to address such notions of displacement, history, memories and also, imaginary landscapes. Though trained as a painter, she frequently employs methods of assembling various types of medium and materials together, sometimes with her paintings, to produce whimsical takes on the subject she is interested in.

Besides being a practising artist since graduating from Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts in 2003, she has experience in other aspects of art: gallery management, education and artistic publications. She is currently a full time lecturer teaching Art theory in the department of Fine Arts at the Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, and had participated in several group exhibitions as well as international art exchange events such as the Creative Camp (Paris) 2003 organised by ASEF and Convergence (2005) which was held at the Fine Arts Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.