Background
She grew up in Liverpool and studied art at the Slade School in London.
She grew up in Liverpool and studied art at the Slade School in London.
Slade School of Fine Artist
She then went to Canada where she taught at the Havergal College in Toronto. On returning to Britain she taught at the Edinburgh College of Art, then under the directorship of Frank Morley Fletcher, under whose influence she took up making colour woodcuts. Her best well known works include the Knife Grinders, Housetops, and the Boat Builders, all scenes of India created in around 1920-1930.
Her woodcuts of flowers, dating from around 1930 to 1933, including Cineraria, Honeysuckle and Columbine, are also well known.