1960 Born Toronto Canada
1978 Foundation Course West Surrey College of Art and Design
1979 Exeter College of Art and Design
1983 Graduated with Fine Art Degree in Painting and Drawing
1984 Moved to Kings Cliffe Lived and worked with painters and crafts people in the rural Northamptonshire village. Began teaching with a strong commitment to drawing based activities
1987 Year of landscape drawing in La Val Dieu, near Limoux in the South of France
1989 On returning to England the desire to broach the subject that had always been so allusive was finally confronted. Back in familiar surroundings it was no longer the landscape of local geography, but the landscape of the human body and the structure of heads and faces
1990 Moved to West Wycombe, Bucks to live with her partner Andrew Hale who encouraged her to increase the scale of these portraits which were now incorporating the whole figure and sometimes more than one perso