Artist working in pencil, charcoal and oil, born in Hove, Sussex. She studied at Winchester School of Art, 1954–7, under David Pare and with John Dragoumis, in Greece. She lived there, in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong and in a remote area of France for 20 years “where I developed very much on my own”. From returning to Britain in 1986 her choice of subjects included people at work, as at the woollen mills, Stroud; the ancient culture of prehistoric Wiltshire; and people working in hospitals. A meeting with the histopathologist Dr Geoffrey Farrer-Brown led him to propose that Macfarlane should record on site the sensitive and sometimes little-understood clinical treatment of breast cancer, resulting in the exhibition A Picture of Health, which toured internationally for many years after the Barbican Centre, 1995, also Living with Leukaemia, from 1998.