Foundation Diploma at CCAT (now Angela Ruskin University, Cambridge)  
BA Fine Art Sculpture at Winchester School of Art, including an exchange to Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,VA USA, study visits to Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Dublin, Moscow, St. Petersburg and New York

After graduating she travelled and worked in South-East Asia and Australia before emigrating to Perth, WA in 1989. 
In 1993 she became part of the artist’s led Studio Voltaire in London where she carved, held a position on the management committee and was integral in the studio move in 2000 to its current location off Clapham High Street.  She also sat on Lambeth Education Arts Forum.

Continuing to work between Studio Voltaire and Fremantle, Western Australia for several years, she carved & assisted sculptor Greg James in bronze casting large scale works at his J-Shed Sculpture Studio. 

Living in Singapore from 2009 -2020 for her husbands job and after a break of several years for motherhood, drawing became her primary medium using it as a daily exercise in collating ideas and images in sketchbooks as visual diaries. Based back in Europe, she divides her time between Connemara in the west of Ireland, Umbria Italy and London, continuing to work on both drawing, forming a new body of sculpture.