Born in 1966 in Freedom Fields, she was reared within an energetic and creative family on a windswept dairy farm high on the North Cornwall Coast.

Searching for the balance of abstraction and metaphor to describe experience of place she trained at Half Acre, Boscastle with Carole Vincent, Falmouth School of Art and gained a BA Hons Degree at Bradford and Ilkley School of Art and Design.

Whilst continuing to paint and exhibit, she taught in schools in Cleveland, Middlesex, Devon and Powys.

Her paintings are held in collections within the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, California, Canada and Australia.

The lie of the land and the stories of place are the visual and lyrical inspiration for her paintings.