Born in West Dorset, Light studied music and art at Dartington College. Both subjects remain an integral part of her life. Indeed, in recent years, she has become increasingly aware of music's role in her art. Both, as she points out, share a common theoretical and emotive language. Vocabulary can easily slip between the two, as with tone, rhythm, transition and dissonance.

Light's main concern in her art is how to create compositions of harmony and balance while using opposing and conflicting materials; a situation which she sees echoed in the landscape. Amongst the media she uses are handmade papers formed on copper moulds, worn sea objects from the coast of Dorset or Brittany, paint, metals, threads, fabric, ground stone and even plastics and rubber. Texture and tonal relationships are paramount.