I studied librarianship in Manchester and realised early on I didn't want to be a librarian. Life-drawing cheered me up. Later I did a degree in Fine Art Printmaking, studied portrait-painting at Lavender Hill Studios and was a New English Art Club drawing scholar.
In 2015 I won the Le Clerc Fowle Medal for a group of outstanding paintings at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters’ annual exhibition, and the Winsor & Newton Award for a painting at the New English Art Club annual exhibition.
I teach painting with Winslow Art Center and Hampshire Art Studio and am represented by GrandyArt in London. I was elected to the NEAC in 2022.