Born in 1954, South Africa.

Education:

• Bachelor of arts, university natal, pietermaritzburg.

• Classes for botanical illustration from katie lee (usa) and jenny philipps (aus)

Profession:

• 1977 – 1979 freelance illustrator

• 1980 – 1981 artist at the National botanic gardens, Pretoria, South Africa.

• 1982 – 1985 freelance artist at Royal botanic gardens, Kew, London, England.

• 1986 – 2004 freelance illustrator in South Africa and Zürich.

• 2019 member of sgbk - Schweizerische Gesellschaft Bildender Künstlerinnen

• 2021 member of KVZ (Künstlervereinigung Zürich)

Awards:

• Winner of the Royal Horticultural Society gold medallion 1985

• Winner of the Botanical Artists Association silver medallion 1995

• Founding member of Baasa (Botanical Artists’ Association of South Africa)

Publications:

• Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (uk)

• Flowering Plants of Africa (sa)

• Veld and Flora (sa)

• P Linder and H Kurzweil, Orchids of Southern Africa

• Du puy and Cribb, The Genus Cymbidium (uk)

• Various scientific journals