The New Statesman singled her out, when critic David Sylvester remarked she "tends to affirm the supremacy of light, as women's painting often does."
[8] In 1964, Mead arrived as a lecturer at Goldsmiths College "like a breath of fresh air" according to pupil and painter Barry Martin.
She was described by Dennis Creffield, artist and fellow student of Bomberg, as having an "abundant personality...a great love of art...stylish in appearance."
[9] Mead was President of the London Group from 1971 to 1973, succeeding Andrew Forge, a progressive art historian with whom she was long associated, and also had an affair with.
She was a feminist with a principled individualism - she once remarked that if she changed her name to George, she stood a greater chance of selling her work!
[13] Mead's paintings were shown at the 1991 exhibition Bomberg and his Legacy, held in Eastbourne at the Towner Art Gallery.
[15] Shortly following her early death on 12 June 1975, it has been claimed that some of Mead's paintings were stolen from a warehouse in Essex, although this is disputed and no evidence to substantiate this has ever been published over the decades.