Landscape artist who first studied textile design at Hastings School of Art. After marriage in 1935, she spent the next few years as a freelance textile designer while raising three children (her son Jeremy Rees founded Arnolfini, the Bristol arts centre, in 1961). In 1946 she co-founded the Bridgwater Arts Centre, said to be Britain’s first art centre, later becoming its chairman. Rees exhibited at the RA, RWA (where she was the artists’ chairman, 1989–92), RI, Medici and New Grafton Galleries, Penwith, Newlyn and many other galleries. She had a retrospective at the RWA’s New Gallery in 2006. Rees was noted for her distinctive, abstractive approach to colour, light and form, inspired by Mediterranean and West Country landscapes. RWA, University of Bath and Somerset County Council held her work.