I was born in London on 23rd March 1952.

My interests and influences have been many and wide-ranging - Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Rembrandt, Samuel Palmer, Constable, The Impressionists and Expressionists. Vincent Van Gogh, Matisse, The Cubists, Paul Klee - including his book "Point and Line to Plane". Also Kandinsky's "Concerning the Spiritual in Art". The Northern Romantics, Abstract Expressionists, Kathe Kollwitz, Anthony Gross, Chinese and Japanese artists and I love the daring, free spirit of Marcel Duchamp.

After leaving art school in 1975, I thought it would be interesting to see how my work changed over the years ahead as I was going through a very challenging time and wasn't sure if I would be able to come through it. During the following years I experienced several periods of depression and as I have always had an interest in the spiritual side of life, I wondered how my images might show my journey through darkness to light - if that was where I was going to end up and even if this was a "good" place to be. However, as I have matured I have seen that "the light at the end of the tunnel" isn't necessarily a good thing as it could also be an oncoming train or someone/something holding a light, coming to lead you to an even darker place! Over the following years I moved between London, Brighton and Oxford with my work being extremely varied - figurative, abstract, colourful, black and white.

I met my husband in Oxford just after my mother had died in 2002 and we went to France on his yacht 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 in 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 making small, colourful abstracts also based on the garden. Now it is 2026 and my latest painting -- just something for myself - is entitled, "My Happy Place"! Not that I am happy being without my husband, but I love the luminosity of the colours and it takes me far away into the distance with the deep blue of the sea and lighter blue sky on the horizon. The deep blue was, at the start, the blue fence at the end of the garden but the painting gradually changed from one of the garden to a landscape overlooking the sea which was quite exciting to do.

I feel that I am in my Twilight years now, so where that will take me - who knows ???