Artist, born in Grays, Essex. She studied at Willesden School of Art, 1922–5, then Royal College of Art, 1925–9, where she was influenced by decorative art in Victoria & Albert Museum. Initially she was a designer of fabrics, costumes and theatre sets, concentrating on painting after World War II, during which destruction of her studio cost most of her work prior to 1942. She became known for her meticulous landscape studies in pencil as well as for figurative and imaginative scenes which were stylised in an early Italian manner. Her first show was shared with Gertrude Hermes at The Minories, Colchester, in 1968. A retrospective covering her paintings and drawings, 1942–81, was held at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 1981, with a ninetieth birthday show there, 1995, a drawings retrospective at Piers Feetham Gallery, 2000, and a memorial at the Redfern Gallery in 2003.