Painter and teacher, born in Cologne, West Germany. After an international upbringing arrived in Britain aged 19. She studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, 1977–80, Goldsmiths’ College School of Art and Royal College of Art, 1982–5. From 1987 she taught at Brighton Polytechnic. In 1988–9 was artist-in-residence at National Gallery for six months, having a show there. Strindberg was an abstract painter with her own colour symbolism who employed metal sheet lozenges on a menacing black ground. She won awards at 1983 Northern Young Contemporaries and 1984 New Contemporaries shows. Her picture Without End was included in John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, 1989–90. She won the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1998. In 1987 she had a Barclays Bank Award solo show at Warwick Arts Trust.