I was born and educated in the USA and I was painting and drawing portraits when I was sixteen years old and this interest led me to study Art History and English Literature at San Diego State University in California. During my time there as a student I travelled solo on a three month journey through Mexico and followed this up with my first one-man show  of watercolours, shown in a gallery in my home town of San Diego, California.

 

I moved to London in 1965 as a result of my former husband’s work as a BBC foreign correspondent, and later spent a number of years of travel and postings abroad - in Dublin, Brussels and Johannesburg. Following these hectic years I settled with my family in London where my pictures have been exhibited in The Mall Galleries, The Guildhall Gallery, The David Curzon Gallery, The Wykeham Gallery and The Collections Gallery and have also been featured in a number of publications including The Financial Times, The Lady, Ideal Home, Company Magazine, The Diplomat and Time Out. I have a quick eye for detail and this was put to use by NBC Television doing on-the-spot portraits of witnesses at the Steve  Biko inquest and I have carried out similar work for ABC Television in London. Later I was commissioned  by the Victoria & Albert Museum to do a series of caricature portraits of members of the general public as part of their bicentennial celebration of the French Revolution. I have worked as a researcher for BBC Radio and as a production assistant for a small documentary film company, Reflex Films, for two years.

 

My successful painting commissions include portraits of broadcaster John Humphrys, dancer Dee Dee Wilde, writer Brian Inglis, playwright Mustafa Matura and choreographer Mathew Hamilton. My portraits and landscapes are in private collections in the USA, France, Italy and South Africa.