[1] In 1939 her sister and her husband Adrian Stokes, who was a writer and leading art critic, had moved to St Ives where they would establish a new artistic school.

This was illegal in Britain so they had to travel to Switzerland to find someone who was legally allowed to marry them.

[2] Adrian died and after a number of years she remarried Ian Angus who was a librarian and an expert of George Orwell.

She would create sculptures of animals like crocodiles, fish and birds as well as painted plates.

Her influences included ancient Cretan pots, Mediterranean pottery and the work of Alfred Wallis.