sentences:  She received her training at Middlesex Polytechnic in London as a natural history illustrator and obtained a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art for a project entitled "British Poisonous Plants".She returned to Africa by way of Phuthadikobo Museum at Mochudi in Botswana with the International Voluntary Service and spent two years roughing it before moving to Lobatse.In 1983 she became resident botanical artist with the South African National Botanical Institute in Pretoria, retiring in 2018.