Background
She was born Joyce Black in Hampstead, London.
She was born Joyce Black in Hampstead, London.
She studied music and art, and married Finzi in 1933.
They had two sons, Christopher and Nigel. She devoted much time to preserving the work of composer-poet Ivor Gurney, continuing her husband"s work after his premature death in 1956. She sketched portraits of contemporary musicians including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Adrian Boult, Howard Ferguson and Sir Arthur Bliss, and writers including Edmund Blunden, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sylvia Townsend Warner and David Jones.
She continued to draw and sculpt, and published two volumes of poetry A Point of Departure and Twelve Months of a Year.
A collection of her portrait drawings was published in an edition of 300 by Libanus Press in 1987, with the title In That Place.