Painter in oil and teacher, follower of the Impressionists, subjects including flowers, children and landscape. She was born at Bramingham Hall, Bedfordshire, one of eight children, was brought up in the country and was encouraged by her parents to paint. After schooling in Ripon and Luton she went, aged 18, to Royal College of Art under Gerald Moira, gaining a scholarship to continue without paying, then studied in Paris, where she worked much in the open air, concentrating on problems of painting sunlight. In 1916 married the painter T C Dugdale. Taught at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, then replaced Percy Hague Jowett at Bromley and Beckenham School of Art until end of World War II. During war ran a Red Cross point and took in evacuees.