Versatile artist, born in London, who spent most of her youth in Italy and France, her grandmother being the sculptor Kathleen Scott (Lady Kennet, widow of the Polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott). She attended Chelsea and St Martin’s Schools of Art. Travelled the world for several years. Went on to found Public Pictures, a community-based mural group, in 1974; worked with The Penguin Café Orchestra from 1975 on record sleeves and stage designs; she was the inspiration for the group Pink Floyd’s second single See Emily Play; later turned fully to sculpture, figurative work in a range of stones and marble. She was an associate of RBA and showed at Odette Gilbert and Berkeley Square Galleries, RA Summer Exhibition and Thackeray Gallery, and in 1993 had a solo show at Sue Rankin Gallery.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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