She went to St Martin’s School of Art before her sixteenth birthday, graduated in 1958 and started working as an illustrator of children’s books for Hamish Hamilton, later OUP and other publishers.
She illustrated several classics: Dickens’s “Christmas Carol”, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, as well as more modern children’s authors.
Also in the USA, she was commissioned by the Unicover Corporation of Wyoming to paint the twelve months of the year in the English countryside for a set of collectors plates.
Her first solo painting show was in Italy (Bellagio, on Lake Como), after which she restricted illustration to work outside the book market.
Her work has been shown in solo and shared exhibitions in the UK, Italy, Australia and the USA and is in private collections all over the world.