Beryl trained at Leicester College of Art, where her initial ambition was to be a painter (she still exhibits her botanical paintings). However once she had been introduced to clay she decided to pursue a career as a potter. Her studies at Art College were followed by two years as a production thrower at Powdermill Pottery making a variety of functional pots for hotels and private commissions. She then taught Pottery, Painting and Design for 22 years at Richmond Adult and Community college and Esher Green Adult Education Centre. On finishing her teaching career in 1995 she spent two years sailing with her husband completing a circumnavigation.

In 1979 she set up and began working from her own studio and has exhibited at various venues and galleries since that time.
Although the majority of Beryl’s work is thrown, reduction fired stoneware, she also experiments combining making techniques, and she enjoys trying different methods of firing kilns e.g. Raku and Fuming, but always fires with an open flame.

She is currently developing vase and bowl forms with contrasting rough textures and smooth surfaces. The main influences on her work are from the natural world. Beryl has recently been working in porcelain.