Background
Born on 11 November 1919 in Chelsea, London to an affluent upper-middle-class family, she was initially educated privately by her father, the poet Eric Taylor, before enrolling at the Chelsea School of Art (now Chelsea College of Art and Design) in 1937.
Career
"Her subjects are closely observed details and scenes from the landscape. The images are combined and filtered through memory, and evolve through a slow process of layering and re-working." Her aunt was Irish designer Eileen Gray. Apart from wartime service, she painted full-time until her death in 1999, supplementing her income with lecturing posts at the Chelsea and Wimbledon Schools of Artist
Clough painted the industrial landscapes of post-World World War II Britain.
Art Gallery of New South Wales Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall Clare College, Cambridge. She died on 26 December 1999, aged 80, following a battle with cancer.
"Painting is like throwing oneself into the sea to learn to swim" (Édouard Manet) - often quoted in interviews by Clough.