Maureen was educated at Manchester University (1970-74), graduating with an MA in English.
While teaching English in St Albans, she also trained as a painter with Maurice Field who was a long-serving tutor at the Slade School and a member of the Euston Road Group. Maureen's interest in art led to an appointment as Senior Researcher at St John's College, Oxford University (1985). Here, in the Ashmolean Museum, she worked on the sketchbooks of Robert Bevan, a fine painter of the Sussex landscape.
The publication of her research in Apollo (1988) and other specialist journals led to a change of career from teaching to journalism. She spent several years as Fine Art correspondent for Traditional Homes magazine reviewing exhibitions, profiling artists and writing on historic houses, such as Lamb House in Rye. She also contributed regularly to the Artist and the Antique Collector. |