Ceramic sculptor, artist in various media on paper, book illustrator and art critic, born in Newbury, Berkshire, who sometimes signed work Myf. She attended Hornsey School of Art, Slade/Ruskin Schools (evacuated to Oxford in World War II), the department of fine art at Reading University under J A Betts and Walsall College of Art. For 15 years Kitchin was art critic for The Guardian newspaper in the Midlands area. She also illustrated books for Phoenix House and Duckworth. Her ceramic sculptures stemmed from the slab pottery technique, developed from on-the-spot sketches. The subjects were originally industrial workers in the Midlands and later farmers and animals in Gwynedd, where she lived at Barmouth. Kitchin was a member of RCamA. She also showed with RBSA, Ombersley Gallery at Ombersley and galleries in Birmingham, Walsall and Lichfield, and she had a solo exhibition at Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, 1997.