Painter and teacher who studied at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, 1981–4, and Royal College of Art, 1985–7. She gained the Audun Gallery Prize and Painters and Stainers’ Cyril Sweet Award, both 1987, and obtained a fellowship in painting at Cheltenham School of Art, Cheltenham, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education. In 1993 became acting head of painting at University of Northumbria, Newcastle. Mixed shows included Whitechapel Open Part I, Spitalfields Gallery, 1992, and Aiding and Abetting, The Gallery at John Jones, 1994.