She attended Radcliffe College at Harvard University, majoring in Architectural Sciences and graduating in 1970. After attending programmes in Skidmore College and the Studio School in New York, and then teaching at Winsor School in Boston, she spent four years in the School of Fine and Applied Arts at Boston University, where she studied under Philip Guston and James Weeks and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1976. At that time she also held her first personal exhibition of nine paintings in Somerville, Massachusetts.

In 1978 she moved to Guyana, South America  as an art teacher and also to serve the community of the Baha'i Faith in that country. She taught drawing and painting in a large, rural secondary secondary school, at Lilian Dewar Teachers College and at Burrowes School of Art, he national art school.   In 1983 she gave an exhibition of paintings on Guyanese and Bahá'í themes in the Kennedy Library in Georgetown.

That same year she moved to Malta, where until the present she has been raising a family, and working toward a mature painting style.  In the last twenty years she has held five exhibitions on two continents and taught private classes.