She spent her formative childhood years near Healesville, Victoria, before working in Ireland for eighteen years, in the graphics department at RTÉ (Irish National television). Her pioneering work in Ireland included designing and creating the country's first pre-school television show, named after its red-haired central character Bosco.

She returned to Australia in 1986 after twenty years in England and Ireland, and settled in Geelong in 1990, turning to book illustration, painting and printmaking. She created her first bollard art in Barwon Heads as part of an artist-in-schools program. She took the concept of the Baywalk Bollards to Geelong city commissioners in 1994, and by 1999 there were over one hundred brightly painted bollards, made from recovered wharf pylons, scattered along the foreshore, depicting notable characters relating to Geelong's history and culture.

Her bollards can also be seen at Melbourne Airport and Avalon Airport.