Victoria Threlfall read English and History of Art at St Andrews University before going on to take a BA in Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art. She has worked as a professional painter ever since. She makes abstract and figurative works whose defining feature is colour and light. She is also a commissioned portrait painter. She teaches drawing and painting in schools and at her studio in Sussex and conducts curated walks for groups interested in the 19th century visionary painter Samuel Palmer.