Trained at the Wimbledon School of Art and graduated with a BA (Hons). She gained a UNESCO Award for the Promotion of the Visual Arts at the Prague Quadrennial, and has won the TMA Best Designer Award for
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Royal Exchange Manchester. She has worked extensively in the UK with theatres including the Cheltenham Everyman, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Liverpool Everyman, Dukes Playhouse Lancaster, Chichester Festival Theatre and Hull Truck. The production of
On the Shore of the Wide World at the Royal Exchange Manchester transferred to the Cottesloe at the National Theatre,
One for the Road at the Gate Theatre Dublin transferred to London's St Martin's Theatre and New York's Lincoln Center, and
Peggy for You for Hampstead Theatre and the Liverpool Everyman transferred to London's Comedy Theatre. Her designs for the Royal Shakespeare Company's
Two Gentlemen of Verona were seen at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon and on a national tour.