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Biography: 2024

I was born in Surrey, England in 1954 and moved to the Cotswolds with my husband
Charles in the early 1980’s in search of beautiful landscapes and to experience rural
life.

I have always been an observer and lover of the natural world and was busily creative
since I can remember. From childhood on I took pleasure in drawing, writing,
reading and studying the world around me and recall the wonder I experienced of the
tantalising effects of light on matter, which is still an important inspiration to me for

my art. This was rekindled when attending drawing classes at the age of twenty, urged
on and accompanied by my friend Rose. From that moment on I was totally smitten,
drawing everything in sight and knew this would become a life time interest to
develop.

I think this wonder I perceived; along with the ability to hold the experience is the
reason behind why I decided to change career and become a painter, alongside my
other work. This involved extensive drawing and sketching but mainly ‘en plein air’
painting, (the method employed by the Impressionists) by painting directly from the
subject matter wherever I travelled, or in my local area.

Over the years I have travelled extensively with my husband and son to collect
sketches, en plein air paintings and photographs from the UK, France, Germany, Italy
and the USA.

I started successfully exhibiting and selling oil paintings from the 1980’s in various

prestigious galleries in the Cotswolds, London and the USA.

My life is balanced now between painting and managing various business duties.