Painter, printmaker and teacher, born in Tehran, Persia, who moved to the United Kingdom in 1959, from 1968–80 studying and practising medicine, University of London and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. She showed art potential at school, so decided while working as a doctor in Paris in 1975 to train formally. After a foundation year in Oxford, she attended St Martin’s School of Art, 1980–4, from 1986–8 painted and exhibited in Colorado, America, moving to Scotland in 1990. From 1995 Peacock lectured in painting and drawing at the School of Art in Glasgow, where she lived. Her figurative work, using Oriental colours, had underlying magical and enigmatic qualities. Group shows included Beaux Arts, Bath, 1987; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 1991; Glasgow Print Studio, 1996; and Paula Bennet Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1997.