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Artist notable for landscapes and townscapes and deft portraits, born and lived in London. Married the artist Richard Carline. She studied at Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks and Allan Gwynne-Jones, 1928–31. From 1933–5 worked at Sadler’s Wells Ballet, in 1933–4 attending Vladimir Polunin’s class for stage design at Slade, then late in 1930s Euston Road School. Was for many years an art examiner for Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate. Joined Hampstead Artists’ Council, also showing with AIA, LG, NEAC and RA. Was represented in The Carline Family, Leicester Galleries, 1971, and Spencers and Carlines, Morley Gallery, 1980, and tour. Had a retrospective at Camden Arts Centre, 1985. Latterly lived in Oxford, to which she had moved after her husband’s death, nearer her son Francis and his family at Wallingford, where she died in a nursing home.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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