Stained glass and pottery designer and watercolourist, born in Cresswell, Staffordshire, daughter of the ceramic designer Gordon Forsyth. She was encouraged to work in clay from an early age and trained in ceramics at Burslem School of Art. Lack of work prompted her to enter the Royal College of Art with a national scholarship to study pottery, but having seen the glass in Chartres Cathedral she instead studied glass design with Martin Travers. Exhibited at RA and at public galleries in Bristol and Stoke-on-Trent. During World War II attached to the research department of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning she worked on two major surveys, on Oxford and Canterbury, then returned to glass work. An ardent Catholic, she especially liked making windows for Catholic churches, and among her major commissions are a transept window at the Benedictine Abbey in Fort Augustus.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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