Painter, muralist, printmaker and teacher. She studied at Cheltenham College of Art and Royal College of Art, and after graduating worked in the studio of Christos Kapralos. On returning to England taught at a girls’ school in Shropshire, then worked in advertising in London. There followed lecturing at Coloma Teacher Training College, in Kent; the painting of a mural for the chapel at St Mary’s Teacher Training College, Strawberry Hill; printmaking at Croydon College of Art; then a move to Suffolk in 1981 where she joined Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop in 1982. An exuberant Colourist, Stubbs built up her images from torn strips of paper, overlaying them with chalk, gouache and watercolour. She took part in many mixed exhibitions.