Sculptor and painter, born in London, self-taught although she was apprenticed to Barbara Hepworth. Conner was married to the documentary film-maker and photographer John Bulmer. Her sister was the writer and critic Penelope Gilliatt, third wife of the playwright John Osborne. Conner’s portrait subjects included Sir John Betjeman, Sir Noël Coward, Lucian Freud, Charles de Gaulle, Lord Goodman, Harold Macmillan, HM The Queen, Sir John Tavener, Lord Rothschild, Lord Sainsbury, The Duke of Devonshire, and HRH The Prince of Wales. Also known for a series of abstract works in a range of materials, Conner claimed that she was “basically a landscape sculptor using natural forces such as wind, water, gravity, sun and shadow.” These included the 20-tonne Irish Wave, 129 feet high, of stainless steel and carbon fibre.