Artist in wide variety of media, including stone carving and collage, and writer and illustrator, born in Bradford, where she continued to live. Professionally she was in charge of the accounts office for British Rail, Bradford, attending the local College of Art’s evening classes for over 30 years, as well as Positano Art Workshop, Italy. She showed at Cartwright Hall, Bradford, in Ilkley, elsewhere in Yorkshire and in London, and was a member of art societies in Bradford and Shipley. After retirement Snowden gained a history honours degree through the Open University, in 1989 publishing Under Stag’s Fell, the story of Simonstone Hall in the Dales, which she researched, wrote and illustrated.