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When Audrey Arnott graduated from the Royal College of Art, she was employed by Hugh Cairns as an artist.
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She founded the Medical Artists’ Association of Great Britain from her home in Wolvercote in 1949. Brödel taught Arnott the technique of drawing on Ross-board with carbon dust, a method which Arnott later passed onto other British medical illustrators. As Arnott was the only British student of Brödel, she is credited with introducing the technique to United Kingdom.
Arnott accompanied Cairns to the University of Oxford when he opened the neurosurgical department there in 1939.
During her time there she produced a number of neurosurgical illustrations for Hugh Cairns, using the Ross-board and carbon dust technique taught to her by Brödelegate Her illustrations have been regarded as showing the clarity of black and white photography, intricate in their anatomical, surgical, and pathological detail whilst maintaining a unique artistic style.
Within the United Kingdom, Arnott was highly influential in the field of medical illustration, training numerous artists in the Ross-board technique, including Margaret McLarty (medical artist for the anaesthetic department). McLarty"s later publication Illustrating Medicine and Surgery became a core text for medical illustrators.
Arnott and McLarty, with two other illustrators, founded the Medical Artists Association of Great Britain on 2 April 1949.
The foundation acted as a professional body for medical artists and raise the standard of medical art through training, education and examinations.
