Art educationist, historian, writer and painter of landscapes, born in Northern Ireland. She studied in Belfast at St Mary’s College of Education and at Queen’s University, then at the Courtauld Institute, London, and at Trinity College, Dublin. Ferran combined educational and cultural institution work in Belfast and abroad with her own private artistic output. Became art and design education officer at the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Had many solo and group exhibitions including RUA, Society of Ulster Women Artists, the Oireachtas at Trinity College, RHA and the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin. Her 1999 self-portrait, in the collection of the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick, alludes to her researches on the painter William Leech; National Gallery of Ireland published Ferran’s book William John Leech: An Irish Painter Abroad in 1996.