I was born in London on 23rd March 1952.

My interests and influences have been wide-ranging - Raphael and Rembrandt, Chardin, Samuel Palmer, Constable, The Impressionists. Vincent Van Gogh, Bonnard, Paul Klee - including his book "Point and Line to Plane". Also Kandinsky's "Concerning the Spiritual in Art", Mondrian, The Northern Romantics, Abstract Expressionists - especially Mark Rothko, Kathe Kollwitz, Chinese and Japanese artists.

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 I wasn't sure if I would come through it. During the following years I experienced several periods of depression, one of extreme depth. As I have always had an interest in the spiritual side of life, I wondered how my images might show my journey through the darkness and if I arrived at a place of peace and light, which, I assumed, was a "good" place to be. 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, in order to lead one to an even darker place! Over the following years I moved between London, Brighton and Oxford (although I had lived in Paris for three months during 1969) 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 studies of lines and shapes in the garden using just a black felt tip brush. 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 work again, painting small colour abstracts from shapes in the garden.

Now it is 2026 and my latest painting -- just something for myself - is entitled, "My Happy Place"! Not that I am happy 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. Recently, I suddenly noticed a segment of the same part of the garden through a small area of the window, looking through it from the kitchen, with the beautiful blue fence at the end and the stunning, luminous shades of red of the leaves on the Smokebush tree, various shades of vibrant green and yellow alongside the dark mauvey brown trunk, with pale violet and blue highlights along the branches. So I just had to immediately make a quick small colour sketch before Autumn and Winter set in and the colours faded, as I was preparing to move from my house.

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