Phyllis Mary Bone was born in Hornby, Lancashire, England, on 15 February 1896. She studied under Percy Portsmouth (1874-1953), Alexander Carrick (1882-1966), and Pilkington Jackson (1887-1963) at Edinburgh College of Art from 1912 to 1918. In 1918 she was awarded a travel scholarship and went to Paris to train with the animal sculptor Édouard Navellier (1865-1944).

She subsequently returned to Edinburgh where she worked as a sculptor, specialising in animal subjects in bronze and stone. Photographs of two oak newel post finials, designed by Bone and carved by T. Good are illustrated in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1925 (p.158). From 1935 to 1950 she worked at the Dean Studios in Dean Village, Edinburgh.

Bone exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Aberdeen Artists' Society, Dumfries Art Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Royal Academy in London, and abroad. She also participated in the Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland in 1938.

Between 1918 and 1927 she produced animal and heraldic carvings on the south front of the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh.

In 1939 Bone was the first woman to be elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy (ARSA) and was elected a full member of the Academy (RSA) in 1944. For many years Bone lived in Kircudbright, Scotland. She died in Dumfries on 12 July 1972.

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