June Burnett was born in Liverpool in 1936 and between 1957 to 1960 studied at Liverpool College of Art, where for while she was in the same class as John Lennon.
By the late 1960’s she settled in Stoke-on-Trent, where she lived for many years in the impressive Victorian Gothic residence, Moneto House (locally known as the ‘Tower House’) on Ricardo Street in Dresden. Between 1968 and 1982 she had numerous exhibitions at the Hobbergate Art Gallery in Newcastle-Under-Lyme and Keele University as well as showing at the Three Counties Open exhibition and the Society of Women artists.
In addition to being an accomplished artist, Burnett wrote several novels: Limbo Girl (1980), Helene Bebe (1984) and When the Singing Stops (1987).
