Education
University of Brighton.
painter cricketer autobiographer
University of Brighton.
Born in Hove, East Sussex, Pannett started painting at three, and wanted to be a professional artist by seventeen. She trained at Brighton College of Art in the 1920s under Louis Ginnett, and received her first artistic commission at eighteen to draw local Sussex characters for the Sussex County Magazine. Pannett married Major Rick Pannett who had been injured in the First World War when he was shot in the mouth.
The bullet had pierced his cheek and missed all his bones.
Suffering from depression, it was alleviated when she resumed painting. In 1949 the family moved to Croydon where she built a studio in her garage.
The Pannett family later moved to Angmering in Sussex in 1964.
Pannett maintained a studio in Hove and was elected a member of the Society of Graphic Artists in 1934.