Painter who did foundation studies at Worthing College of Art & Design, 1985–6; gained a first-class honours degree in fine art (painting) from Maidstone College of Art & Design, 1986–9; winning a higher diploma fine art (painting) from Slade School of Fine Art, 1989–91. Awards included Boosey and Hawkes Art Prize (commissions), 1991–2; Boise Travel Scholarship, to China, 1992; Travel to East and Southern Africa, 1993; and a South East Arts Major Award, 1995. Showed at Sandra Drew Gallery, Canterbury, 1989; Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, Routes – Four Women Artists Through the Slade, 1991; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, show of seven commissioned paintings, 1992; and Diverse, Kent Institute of Art & Design, 1996. Shared an exhibition at Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, 1995.