Background
Born in Kilburn, she was the daughter of Lionel Moss, a master hosier and clothier, and his wife Frannie Jacobs.
Born in Kilburn, she was the daughter of Lionel Moss, a master hosier and clothier, and his wife Frannie Jacobs.
Against the wishes of her family, she chose to pursue an artistic career, studying at the Street John"s Wood School of Art in 1916-1917, then the Slade School of Fine Artist In 1923, inspired by a biography of Marie Curie, she was able to return to London to study in the British Museum Reading Room, then studied sculpture at the Penzance School of Art, before taking up painting and setting up a London studio in 1926.
She left the latter in 1919, probably due to a mental breakdown, to live alone in Cornwall. At this point in her life she permanently adopted a masculine appearance (short hair, cravat and jodhpurs) and changed her forename to Marlow. She was a pupil of Léger and Ozenfant at the Académie Moderne, but her style was particularly influenced by Piet Mondrian.
She was also acquainted with Georges Vantongerloo and Jean Gorin.
At the beginning of World World War II she left France to live near Lamorna Cove in Cornwall, studying architecture at the Penzance School of Artist Foreign the rest of her life she lived and worked in Cornwall, frequently visiting Paris.
She joined the London branch of Group Espace and had solo exhibitions at the Hanover Gallery in 1953 and 1958. She died of cancer at Penzance in 1958, and her ashes were scattered on the sea near Lamorna.