Faraday attended Winchester School of Art and Croydon College of Art in the late 1960s. Subsequently she completed her BA degree and PhD at Essex University, and then a Fine and Applied Arts (ceramics) course at the City Lit, London in 1991.

Since then she has exhibited widely in galleries and exhibitions, mainly in London, but also around the country and abroad, and the south-west. In Cornwall she has exhibited at several venues (listed below). She sells her work through shops and galleries and by commission.