Painter in oil, artist in collage and teacher, brought up in Jamaica. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, in Paris and at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Married the artist Claude Rogers in 1937 and became associated with the Euston Road School, participating in the Euston Road exhibition at Wakefield City Art Gallery in 1948. She exhibited in London, later shows including Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1973, and Christopher Hull’s Annexe Gallery, Wimbledon, in 1979. In 1981, there was a memorial exhibition at Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, which included sensitive landscapes from the Euston Road period and abstract collages, which she had begun to create in 1968 shortly before a stroke and partial paralysis. For a time she was a member of LG and RWA and was senior lecturer and head of the art department at Gipsy Hill Training College.

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


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