After O'levels Abbott carried on her art studies at Rigate Art School, this was cut short however, when her parents moved to Brussels. After spending a year in the art rooms at the British School of Brussels she began a foundation at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts where her love of the human figure and life drawing was born. Abbott gained a place at Stourbridge Art School to do a painting degree but the pull of the wild was too strong and she dropped out of her studies.

In the late 80's Abbott joined the Peace Convoy and began five years of travelling the UK in an old 1967 Super Vega coach, it was here that she learned herb law from the Gypsies and Scottish travelling folk which armed her well for a career in the herbal product market. When her children were old enough for school they settled back into society where the need for a job was filled, she attained the position of Senior Buyer for an International Herbal company and was head hunted into a company growing crops world wide for the same market.

Her two children, Axel and Roze were born during the travelling years, their formative days spent in idyllic natural environments, sharing the bus home with dogs, chickens, a goat, a ferret and a cat. During this time too Abbott became a practising herbal vet, caring for all the sick dogs she came across on her travels. She believes that her success with painting dogs is somehow a universal pay back for the dogs she saved.

It wasn't until the turn of the millennium that Abbott picked up her brushes again and began painting, once started though it was as if Pandora's Box had been opened, her office based job became a prison sentence, making her quite ill. A move nearer her parents on the south coast found her in Brighton where she found a small shared studio and began to paint in earnest.

Initially working on classical figurative compositions with a modern twist she had a fair amount of success, however, with the first painting of a dog for a friends mum's Christmas present things really took off, working mostly to commission for dog portraits she is probably the best know animal painter in the area and is in constant demand. Her human portraits are now also becoming more sort after and it has been know for Abbott to stop people in the street to ask if they will model for her.

She is particularly interested in the surface of living things, our skin, fur and feathers. Her subjects exist in fields of solid colour, which allows them to exist without distraction or fuss and with the direct eye contact she masters the work appears to breath