Born in Sussex. Studied at Goldsmith's and Glasgow School of Art 1940-3. 1947 at Hospitalfield under James Cowie. Post -Diploma at Glasgow in 1948 followed by travel in Italy and France.From 1950's her output divides between work depicting the townscape and children of depressed urban Glasgow from her studio in Townhead and  powerful landscapes and seascapes from her cottage at Catterline, in Kincardineshire. Died tragically young.