Artist producing “highly coloured and strongly structured work, influenced by travel abroad, themes including landscape, building, animals and people.” O’Driscoll was born in Leigh, Lancashire, and graduated with honours from the Central School of Art & Design, 1975–7, then obtained a Slade School of Fine Art postgraduate higher diploma in painting, 1977–9, personal tutor Bernard Cohen. She won a Boise Travelling Scholarship, taking her to South America, in 1980, and an Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarship, British School at Rome, 1994. Her residencies included Brackenhale School, Bracknell, Berkshire Education Authority, and Rhos-y-Gwaliau, Wales, 1987; Hook Norton Primary School, 1988; and Vale of the White Horse District Council Parks Department, flower-bed project, 2001.