Textile designer, artist and teacher, born in Fife of Polish and Scottish parents, her father having moved to Scotland with the Polish Free Army. She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, in 1966 and was the first of its students to be accepted by Royal College of Art, but pregnancy prevented her taking up the place. From 1976 she taught widely throughout Britain including Duncan of Jordanstone, where from 1984 she became head of textiles. In 1977 she gained a Scottish Arts Council Award for research work in surface and three-dimensional treatments of cloth. Her commissions included a large Silk Wall for General Accident Assurance Company headquarters in Perth, in 1982–3. She participated in many group shows in Britain and abroad and had solo exhibitions at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, 1971 and 1979, and Anatol Orient Gallery, 1986.