was born in 1939 and brought up in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; attended art schools in Huddersfield and Batley before going on to Manchester School of Art in 1970; graduated three years later with a Diploma in Art and Design; in1974 she obtained an Art Teachers Certificate from Leeds Polytechnic Institute, living and painting in the Languedoc with fellow artist and husband to be, Paul Hedley; settled in London in 1975 and established a studio and divided her time between painting, exhibiting and teaching