She is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, a member of S.C.A., the Portrait Society and a member of the Arts and Letters Club. After graduation from O.C.A in 1966 she spent six years as a fashion / commercial illustrator. Incorporated in her life always was drawing and painting landscape, still life, and portraiture. Her body of work reflects diverse cultural images encountered during her travels throughout North America, Asia, the Caribbean and the Arctic.