Artist in watercolour, oil and egg tempera, born in Poppleton, Yorkshire, her parents both qualified artists. They encouraged her and taught her watercolour technique. She gained her art teacher’s diploma at Liverpool College of Art, studying at Royal Academy Schools, 1937–9, teachers including Walter Westley Russell, Tom Monnington, Francis Jackson and George Clausen. Waller taught for a year after gaining her teaching diploma but preferred freelance painting. Travelled extensively, including France, Italy, Belgium, Madeira and Portugal and had homes in Sark and Guernsey – at St Peter Port – in the Channel Islands. Her output included a decorative altar piece for the Chapel of St John, also large panels for St Stephen’s Church, both in Guernsey.