Hazel M. Spencer was born in Surbiton, England in 1945 and studied at Chelsea School of Art, London (1962-63). She continued her art education at Liverpool Regional College of Art and graduated in Fine Art Painting in 1967.

She obtained an Art Teachers Diploma at the same college in 1968.
Hazel combined painting with art teaching until 2000 and now concentrates full-time on painting. Since 1989 she has been a member of the Norwich 20 Group and the Women’s Art Library.

Her work has included abstract paintings on themes of sexuality, birth and fertility with autobiographical references and mixed media constructed textiles inspired by fertility in nature.