Audrey Juliet Arnott (1901–1974) was a medical illustrator who worked with the neurosurgeon Hugh Cairns at the London Hospital and followed him to Oxford when he was appointed Nuffield Professor of Surgery in 1939.
[1] When Audrey Arnott graduated from the Royal College of Art, she was employed by Hugh Cairns as an artist.
During her time there she produced a number of neurosurgical illustrations for Hugh Cairns, using the Ross-board and carbon dust technique taught to her by Brödel.
Her illustrations have been regarded as showing the clarity of black and white photography, intricate in their anatomical, surgical, and pathological detail whilst maintaining a unique artistic style.
[3] Arnott and McLarty, with two other illustrators, founded the Medical Artists Association of Great Britain on 2 April 1949.