Painter, notably of landscape, and teacher, born in Blackpool, Lancashire, who gained an honours degree in fine art from Liverpool School of Art, 1971–5, then did postgraduate studies at Royal Academy Schools, 1978–9. In Liverpool she won the David Murray Travelling Scholarship, painting in Morocco, and in 1975 had a solo show at the Liverpool Academy, which invited her to join. She won the David Murray prize three years in succession at the Academy Schools, and in her final year show the RA bought her picture Life Room. On leaving the Academy she won the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation scholarship which enabled her to paint for a year, when she began to paint pictures of her home town, Stockport. Teaching included Northwich School of Art and Southampton College.