Artist and lecturer, born in Eldoret, Kenya, who completed foundation studies at Yeovil College, graduating with an honours degree in fine art from Falmouth School of Art, 1986–9. From 1992 she taught extensively across the United Kingdom at schools and other institutions, including the Edinburgh International Music Festival, in Somerset, 2001, and Giants Project, Boscastle, Cornwall, 2004, and was a part-time lecturer at Bicton College, near Exeter, teaching as part of a foundation in environmental art and rural crafts. She gained a Jerwood Foundation Award in 1994; Lowick House Printmaking Residency, Ulverton, 1996; Arts Council South West Annual Award, 1998; and Arts Council South West Year of the Artist Awards, 2000 and 2001. De la Hey contributed to group exhibitions in Britain and America, later ones including Canvas and Camera 3, Photographers’ Gallery, 1998; Tooth and Claw, RWA, 2003; and Somerset Man, Messum’s, Marlow and London, 2004.