She graduated from Parsons School of Design with a MFA in 1998, having worked as a teaching assistant there in her final year.

[4][5] The book describes the early years of her career as an artist in London and New York, and has a foreword written by Colin Thubron.

[26] Her paintings "exist at the meeting point of decision and accident",[27] making the viewer aware of the trail of the brush, the pressure of the artist's hand and the degree to which one mark can differ under varying circumstances, setting up conditions for chance and responding to the natural physicality of paint itself.

Of her work, British artist and art historian Simon Morley has written: "Her paintings evoke a feeling of suspension, as if what we see is a held or frozen moment within an ongoing process.

This sense of simplicity is achieved through an enormous process of condensation, resulting in a level of clarity and unity that permeates the work.