Watercolourist and illustrator, printmaker and teacher, born in New Malden, Surrey. Her father worked for the Central Telegraph Office and was a keen amateur painter. After attending Tiffin School for Girls, which she hated, she endured unhappy employment with the Civil Service while attending art classes, initially in the evening at Kingston Art School, next Richmond School of Art, 1932–5, then Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1937–9, her teachers including William Palmer Robins, John Farleigh and Clarke Hutton. In her final year, she met her future husband, who would become the distinguished silversmith, Leslie Durbin. Ginger taught for a short time at Bromley School of Art, leaving to have her first child. Her family and their offspring were to become favourite subjects.