I was brought up in Kenya, and trained as a painter at St Martins School of Art in London, receiving NDD in 1966 and later trained as a teacher. I was an original member of Gainsborough's House Print Workshop in Sudbury, where I worked on my own work but also taught regular day and evening courses and week-long summer courses in a wide variety of printmaking techniques. I became technician and later chairwoman.
Currently I am no longer printmaking, but have returned to painting landscapes, mainly, but not exclusively, in oils. I am most concerned with the rhythm and mood of a landscape, changing weather and light, and work from very quick pencil sketches without too much detail which leaves me free to interpret them as I wish. The images are stylised, some moving towards semi abstraction. I have had many solo and group exhibitions, both in this country and abroad, most recently in 2022 a solo exhibition entitled Landscape Unlocked in the Peggy Jay Gallery, Burgh House, Hampstead.
As well as creating my own work I continue to teach private drawing and painting classes in Assington where I live.
My work is featured in the following publications:
'Printmaking - Traditional and Contemporary Techniques' by Ann d'Arcy Hughes and Hebe Vernon Morris, 'The Coach House in Gainsborough's Garden' edited by Miranda Mott, and 'Dreams of Flight' by Anne Boileau
