Joined a pottery evening class at Putney art school as a distraction from her demanding job as a nurse but soon became 'hooked'.
After moving to Ross on Wye she continued to study pottery with Andrew McGarva and met and was inspired by Michael Casson. She joined South Wales Potters in the 1980s and have found the support, exchange of skills, joint exhibitions and activities and friendships have been invaluable.
she likes traditional ceramics which, for her, has more life and joy than a lot of more refined ceramics. She was inspired in the 1970s by an exhibition of pre-columbian pottery and was lucky enough more recently to visit Peru and see some wonderful collections of pre-colonial ceramics.
She has also been inspired on her travels by the wildlife of Kenya and particularly of Madagascar and of the Galapagos Islands.
Her work has developed out of a lifelong interest in the natural world and the relationship of the living world with it’s environment.
She now concentrates on smaller sculptural pieces and on garden ware in which the natural world is a strong influence and where animal forms often grow out of the pots. Her work is not a simple copy of a particular animal but a distillation of the characteristics that interest her.