Designer, printmaker, calligrapher, illustrator and painter, who grew up in Hampstead, north London, where she lived much of her life. She trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, being taught calligraphy by Graily Hewitt. During World War I she oversaw the art department of the central London Young Men’s Christian Association, after hostilities designing under her own Rainbow Workshops sign. In 1922 she married C H James and closed her workshops, then living in a house he designed at 1 Hampstead Way and setting up a new workshop there. An impressive stream of banners, book-jackets, posters, illuminated books and watercolours followed, clients including Lloyd’s of London, RIBA, London Transport, Shell and the General Post Office.