I was born in London on 23rd March 1952.

My influences are many and wide-ranging - Raphael, Rembrandt, Samuel Palmer, Constable, The Impressionists and Expressionists. Vincent Van Gogh, Matisse, The Cubists, Paul Klee - including his book "Point and Line to Plane", Kandinsky and his "Concerning the Spiritual in Art". The Abstract Expressionists, Kathe Kollwitz, Anthony Gross, Chinese and Jaapanese artists. I have always thought that Leonardo da Vinci was on a completely differerent planet to other artists, his work having an inexplicable and unique spiritual quality. I am also very interested in the Northern Romantics and love the daring, free spirit of Marcel Duchamp.

After leaving art school in 1975, I thought that it would be an interesting project to see how my images might change over the years ahead as I was going through a very challenging time and wasn't sure if I woul be able to come through it. I have been through several periods of depression - including one extremely deep episode. I have always had an interest in the spiritual side of life and wanted to see how my work might show my journey through darkness to light and if this was a "good" place. However, as I have matured I have seen that "the light at the end of the tunnel" isn't neessarily a good thing as it might also be an oncoming train or someone/something else holding a light, coming to lead you to an even darker place!

So this particular journey started from Oxford and then I moved up to Edinburgh and joined the Printmakers' Workshop, taking part in many of their exhibitions. I left there at the end of 1977 and moved back to London for a few years, continuing with my work - drawing, painting and printmaking and joined the Printmakers' Council with whom I exhibited for quite a long time. Over the following years I moved between London, Brighton and Oxford. My work has been extremely varied over that time - figurative, abstract, colourful, black and white.

Then I met my husband in Oxford just after my mother had died in 2002 and we eventually went to France on his boat for two years where I took many photographs. We moved to Devon around 2019 and I began making small studies of shapes and colours in the garden. Very sadly, he died last year - 2024, and I couldn't do any work for a while until I made a small, very bleak, semi-abstract painting. Then I gradually started again and recently I have been making small, colourful abstracts based on the garden and the wonderful shapes and colours of all the houses that I can see from my bedroom window, which glow in the warm, early evening light................and so it continues!