Art Life - As the daughter of a commercial artist, I always believed that I was incapable of producing anything of artistic merit. My husband and I love to travel overseas. After spending a number of holidays in northern Thailand, I realised that I wasn't really seeing what I was looking at. I had hundreds of photographs which I had taken and then never looked at. What I really wanted was something to make me really 'see', so I went into a stationary shop in Chiang Mai and with my limited Thai managed to buy a sketchbook and some pencils. I have never looked back!

I always have a number of sketchbooks on the go. My favourite is a large Moleskine and, now, the Moleskine watercolour sketchbook. I especially like to use a clutch pencil with 2B 7mm lead, although I do use pastels, oil pastels and watercolours both in pans and in pencils. Every Monday night during term time my son and I join a small group to take a drawing/painting class at our local Arts Centre.

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Worklife - I have been a teacher for most of the last 30 years, except when I worked for 3 years as a help desk operator for a (then) large software company. I began my teaching life as a primary school teacher but now I teach Computing Studies to teenage girls at an Independant High School on the edge of the beautiful Sydney Harbour.

Homelife - My sons are now young men in their 20's. Andrew is a nurse, working in a nursing home for the elderly and a great favourite with the residents. James has just completed his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and now works as a technician at a public high school. My hubby, Alan, known as The Poet, after 25 years in the RAN, was a technical college teacher of communcation up until September last year when his Parkinson's Disease and a bad fall put an end to his career. Alan, Jamie and I share our house with a beautiful ginger and white cat called Meg and an aged Maltese called Raggs.