Born in England from Scottish and Welsh parents. She grew up in Zimbabwe  Africa and later returned to England for schooling. Arriving in 1970 to WA’s largest Noongar settlement in Gnowangerup, her father as an Anglican priest woke her to the history of aboriginal people in Australia. Nurse training in Fremantle fell by the way side as she joined in a back to the land movement that arose out of Nimbin & Woodstock festivals Esalen & Findhorn. We were the generation of Ted Hughes James Kirkup Joan Baez Margaret Mead Simone de Beauvoir & Jung: poets seers and musicians who found themselves in the atomic age.

Married to Stuart for 35 years and with 2 young adults married and with partners, we have continued to visit Ada Andy Napaltjarri and her family since 1984. We began to paint while sitting with Ada at Papunya and then continued to design trips to the family every year or two: taking paint and canvas and encouraging everyone of the family and their friends to paint with us in the back yard.

Kate is an artist in fibers and textile using the genre of Art Cloth to portray story. She senses the fast disappearance of knowledge that hunting and gathering life on the land has carried. Her current paintings are a naive attempt to capture this walking on an ancestral landscape.  

Kate is currently practicing as a Natural Therapist using Emmett's muscle management techniques and Upledger's Cranio Sacral  techniques taught by Malcolm Hiort at his Melbourne School of Cranial Sacral Therapy. Kate offers to work with parents who have children with learning difficulties & people needing relief from pain.