Figurative painter and teacher, born and lived in London, daughter of the artists Walter and Hilda Marsden. She studied at the Royal College of Art, 1938–46, under Gilbert Spencer. Marsden taught art appreciation to troops during and after World War II at the London District Command School and in a number of schools, becoming a senior lecturer in painting at St Martin’s School of Art. Commissions included a London Transport poster and a large litho of the Horse Guards for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Group exhibitions included the RA, LG, NEAC, RBA, Leicester and Crane Kalman Galleries. Had two solo shows at Upper Grosvenor Gallery and in 2001 at The Gallery in Cork Street. That exhibition, The Universal Circus No Man is an Island, was completed over 10 years.