Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, writer and teacher, born in Oxford. She termed herself a “member of the modern figurative movement, continuing a great tradition that began with Sickert and his early followers”. She studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, 1960–4, gaining the Leverhulme Scholarship and final year painting prize. While still a student showed with Young Contemporaries and at RA Summer Exhibition. After college she painted in Spain before teaching for two years. From early 1970s she travelled extensively, including Canada, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia. As well as showing abroad she continued to exhibit with NEAC and RBA, RWS and RCamA, all of which she was a member, and RWA, of which she was an associate.