I was born, brought up and lived for 20 years in Hawick – the Knitwear town – in the borders of Scotland.

I studied at and graduated at Edinburgh College of Art followed by a course at Moray House College Edinburgh to qualify in Teaching. Taught in Secondary Schools before moving to England, to Derby, where Adult Education fitted in better with the arrival of two children. Thirty odd years later…. I am still very involved with Adult Teaching – “I am a Teacher who Paints”
I have had a number of successful private exhibitions, and I’m a regular exhibitor in Westminster Hall, London with the Society of Women Artists. I have won the Staedler Price for Pastels at the Royal Birmingham Society of Art Open Pastel Exhibition and several awards in the Midlands area. I also take part in Patching’s Art Festival in June at Calverton, Nottingham each year.

I love to work in Pastels, Pen & Wash, Watercolours and all drawing media, but as a teacher I turn my hand to most techniques.

I run a series of weekly Classes and Workshops throughout the year at Duffield, Derbyshire and also day schools, appraisals and exhibition judging for Art Societies in the Midlands area
“For me the interest in a painting is not the achievement of technical perfection but the creation of atmosphere, liveliness and feeling, to see something different in a painting every time you look at it is magic.”