”In common with many other families during WW2, women and children from cities were evacuated to safer places and so it was that I was born in the hills of North Wales on 7th September 1940. This was also the night of the first big bombing raid on London where my parent’s home and their means of income received a direct hit.

Many years later when back in London, a visit to the wonderful South Bank Exhibition made a big impression on me. After early schooling I joined Croydon Art College and then took a brief film making course at Regent Street Polytechnic where I enjoyed directing a short documentary.

To enter the film world was incredibly difficult at the time so I settled on a three-year diploma course in photography at London College of Printing and Graphic Arts. Later, I shared a studio with other photographers in central London. For me it was a whirlwind of a time, with intense work getting commissions from Architects, Designers and Design magazines and always in competition with men. Looking back, it is true to say that ever since those early days, photography has been a big part of my life, and now, although times are very different, I feel myself lucky to be in touch with organisations such as ‘Hundred Heroines’ who offer every encouragement to young women in Photography.