Painter, draughtsman and teacher, born in London. Goodman was half Russian, her paternal great-grandmother being the Bloomsbury art patron Lady Ottoline Morrell. She attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, 1979–84, for a foundation degree, completing a postgraduate diploma at Royal Academy Schools, 1984–7. From 1990 she taught at Camberwell, and became director and teacher at the Prince of Wales’s Drawing School, Shoreditch. While studying she had won the Tom Phillips Drawing Prize, in 1984, the David Murray Travelling Scholarship, 1984–5, the Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1987 and the Richard Ford Award in 1988. Exhibited in RA Summer Exhibitions, at the RA’s Art Al Fresco in 1988 and in 1991 had a solo show at Cadogan Contemporary.