Educated at Belfast College of Art (1950-1954) and the Academia delle Belle Arti in Palermo, Italy (1957-1958), her cartoons were published in the Daily Mirror, Daily Star, The Sun, News of the World, The Mail on Sunday, Medical Digest, Punch and the Reader's Digest, among others. She drew a regular strip for The Evening News. She also illustrated books and worked in advertising. She taught art in Belfast and London, and won first prize in the Waddington's Cartoon Awards in 1988.