Candida Cave trained at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University and studied for her M.A. in History of Art at the University of Buckingham. After discovering a gift for inspiring people through teaching, she founded Hampstead Fine Arts College in 1978 with the artist Nicholas Cochrane.
In addition to serving as Principal and teaching Art History, Candida is also a playwright and a practicing painter: her art has been exhibited in London and Lewes, while her plays have been performed in London theatres, museums and galleries and for the British Council in Florence, Bologna and Rome