Radical, innovative embroiderer, designer, teacher and writer, brought up in Bromley, Kent, who from 1929 trained at the Royal School of Needlework with Rebecca Crompton; studied millinery and dress design under Elizabeth Grace Thomson at Bromley School of Art for 18 months; then won a Royal Exhibition to the Royal College of Art, 1935–8, studying embroidery while teaching at Bromley School of Art. Taught at Eastbourne School of Art during World War II and, having a love of ballet, designed and made costumes and sets for Arts Theatre Ballet, based at the town’s Winter Gardens Theatre. Her designs were included in British Stage Design, published in 1950 by the Victoria & Albert Museum, which holds her first important religious embroidery panel, Madonna, of 1934.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
