Snapper-up of Unconsidered Trifles and Jackie of All Trades.

Her distinguished academic career included a year at the Central School of Art in London, where her definitive in-depth analysis of the design function of Soho strip club fascias was much appreciated, and three years at Bristol University where her epic thesis on Samuel Becket (in French) secured her a BA Hons (just) in French and Drama. A year in Paris teaching English at a smart school in 16° arrondissement taught her all she needed to know about French cinema, vin ordinaire and the difficulties of Parisian chic on a small budget.

She returned to sweep the boards as an Assistant Stage Manager, and trod the boards herself for 10 years. Highlights included her riveting performance as the Reverend Tombs and Dr Blood in the Farndale Avenue Estate Townswomen’s Guild show – "The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle" and her portrayal of Goneril in Deborah Warner's production of King Lear for Kick Theatre, which played to rave reviews at the Edinburgh Festival and transferred to the Almeida theatre via Cairo and Kosovo. She appeared briefly with Alan Bennett, Sir Alec Guiness and Eleanor Bron in Christine Edzard's film of Little Dorrit.

In between she played Diana in All's Well that Ends Well for the BBC Radio and flitted across TV screens variously as police officers, social workers and teachers, and starred as a guest artiste on Playbus. Over the years, she has earnt a few extra crusts as a travel courier (budget coach trips to Paris), shop assistant, book keeper and baby sitter, clerking in court for defence barristers, as well as medical role play.

She spent a year as an assistant to Jim Smart, a renowned decorative painter, rag-rolling, stippling and scumble-glazing her way through the drawing rooms of Kensington and Chelsea. While restoring an Adams ceiling at the top of a ten foot scaffold tower, an early contraction suggested that, though she may have reached a high point in her career, it was time to move on. Three years later her two children appeared in another of Christine Edzard's films – The Fool – with Derek Jacobi. In 1996 she joined the board of the Dodo Pad Ltd, and as creative director, compiler and illustrator set up a smart office and shiny new studio (downstairs front bedroom) to save the quirky handdrawn desk diary, originally created by Sir John Verney in 1966, from extinction. You can see here some of her cartoons from the Dodo Pad here. In 2008 she sold her stake in the Dodo Pad and is now working on a series of Cartoon Boxes in her shed where she is resuming her career as a Snapper-up of Unconsidered Trifles and Jackie of All Trades.

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