Artist using a colourful palette, born in Leeds, Yorkshire. She gained an honours degree in drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art in 1990, and a graduate business enterprise qualification from the Universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield in 1991. Won a number of prizes, including NEAC and Laing Art Competition, Harrogate. Flying Colours Gallery and Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh showed her work, which also appeared at Leeds Art Fair and in Four Yorkshire Artists, Phillips, Leeds, 1996.