Gloria's career as an artist has spanned sculpture, book illustration, stage sets and the design and restoration of lacquered furniture and chinoiserie, including work for The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Ashmolean Museum and also work on the Wallace Collection.

The Iberian horse has featured strongly in her work. Whilst travelling to Portugal to study Lusitano's in their home environment she pursued her own studies in Haute Ecole for three years under the tutelage of Lord Henry Loch. Since then she has gone on to produce bold and powerful studies of bulls, Inspired greatly by the fighting bulls of Portugal and the mass and majesty of both English and Portuguese breeds. In these works is demonstrated her mastery of the art of draughtsmanship which is seen throughout her work, from the dramatic charcoal studies of ballet dancers to the relaxed sketches of passers-by. Now spending much of her time in Portugal, Gloria is drawing inspiration, for her paintings and children's stories from the people, traditions and the country itself.

“ I have painted for as long as I can remember, from my earliest memories drawing was the activity that I enjoyed most and as a child I would wander for miles, sketchbook in hand, drawing flowers, trees, people and animals. I soon found a desire for movement and drama in my work and now whatever the subject, whether it be dancers, musicians, the prancing white horses of the Iberian Peninsular, or the power and scale of the bull studies, these are the qualities that I hope to attain. Life encapsulates movement, attitude, love, passion, sadness, drama, music; so it is not my intention to paint portraits in the conventional sense but to capture ‘these qualities’ as I perceive them in the subject."

Her work has been exhibited in the following galleries;

Century Galleries, Henley –on- Thames, Mistral Gallery, Dover Street, London Equus Gallery, Newmarket, The Deane Gallery, Co Cork, The Condon Gallery, Theatre Royal, Norwich, Chimney Mill Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, The Mall Galleries, London (with The Pastel Society and The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours) The King of Hearts Centre for the Arts, Norwich Portugal; Gois Arte, 2006, Live Arte, 2006. Spain: Oroso and 2007

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