She was a Hampshire-born artist and educator who defined painting as the act of “learning to see.” After completing her art and teacher training at Clapham High School in the early 1920s, she moved to Sherborne to teach at Lord Digby’s School. By the 1930s, she shifted to part-time teaching to focus on her craft, spending over a decade studying landscape painting under St Clair Marston.
Her professional success included memberships in the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, along with frequent exhibitions at the Royal Academy. A prominent figure in the Sherborne art scene, she eventually retired to Weymouth in 1953. Even in retirement, she remained active by leading summer workshops, lecturing for various educational organisations, and traveling internationally to refine her botanical and landscape techniques.
