She was a neighbour of the art teacher and author Wilfrid Blunt who encouraged her painting.
[2] During her lifetime she exhibited in the UK and internationally, including at the Smithsonian Museum and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University in the USA.
[1][4] Her paintings are included in UK national collections including the Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Horticultural Society and Kew Gardens.
[1] She was awarded Gold Medals in 1982, 1988 1989, 1994 and 2000 by the Royal Horticultural Society.
In 2002 she was given the Jill Smythies Award by the Linnean Society for accurate published botanical illustrations.