Jean was born and educated in Cardiff and has always been an enthusiastic artist since drawing with wax crayons on the newly plastered walls of her home when she was 3 years old. She describes herself as "a responsive artist with no angst to grind".

After school she qualified as an Occupational Therapist and spent many years working in the NHS before completing a Fine Art (Hons) Degree at Swansea Institute (now Swansea Metropolitan University) in 2005. Her work was selected and shown in the Welsh Graduate Showcase at the Exposure Gallery in Swansea in October 2005. The degree course enabled her to begin exploring her own potential and language as an artist. Her current artwork focuses on her local coastal environment, documenting change and the influences of nature and human intervention upon it

She is happy to work with many media from traditional painting techniques and through drawing, printmaking, textiles and collage, often using objects and materials found at the sites she explores. Her work can be seen at the Silures Gallery and the Grand Pavilion , which are in Porthcawl .

Jean lived in many parts of Britain and in Jamaica before moving to Porthcawl in 2001 where she joined the Silures Group of artists who are committed to pushing the boundaries associated with amateur art.

She is now a professional artist who is trying to develop a personal style and a body of work whilst working with the Grand Pavilion as the Visual Arts Advisor and Facilitator of the Art Forum.

Jean teaches at the Trinity Art Group on Monday and Friday and has many years experience of using art as therapy with individuals and groups. She has led many workshops and art projects in hospitals, churches and other organisations and hopes to develop a community art workshop which will enable artists and students to engage in art activity which she believes to be inherently life-enhancing.

Jean's first professional exhibition is currently running in the bar at the Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl. It will close on 2010-01-25. It is entitled "At Last", reflecting her relief at being able to create her own work again, A digital version of the exhibition is in preparation