After graduating in Biology and English at Keele University, Pip spent several years working in environmental education. However in 1984 she rediscovered a personal need to make visual art. By 1990 she had initiated her own art group in Bristol working with people of all ages and abilities who had a desire to paint and draw. This work continues in Llangynidr, now her home and workplace.

Listening to live performance of music and time spent in India at a multi disciplinary school of performing arts, were formative in developing the crossfertilization of art forms and sensory expression in her work. Pip now paints full time. She undertakes commissioned portraits, as well as creating paintings in response to situations that present themselves. In 1997 she joined a team of artists, commissioned by the Countryside Commission and funded by the Arts Council, to contribute artistic perceptions of the landscape of the Surrey Hills for the landscape assessment of this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.