[2] Leo Myers frequented writers and artists including members of the Bloomsbury Group, the sculptor Frank Dobson and the painter Cedric Morris.

During the Second World War EQ and her children lived at first at Yew Cottage on Cranborne Chase in Dorset,[5]: 6  and then, from 1941 until 1947, at Alderholt Mill House, near Fordingbridge in Hampshire.

[11]: 70  One of her best-known designs is Runner Bean, which dates from about 1950 and was used in Hugh Casson's furnishing of the Royal Yacht[12] and for hand-printed wallpapers by Cole & Son.

For a period of only about fifteen years from about 1941, EQ worked intensely as a painter, in gouache, crayon and collage, in a style that owed something to Georges Braque, whom she greatly admired.

[8] Works from this period are in the Tate,[14] the New Hall Art Collection[6] and the National Portrait Gallery;[12] they have been compared to those of other artist-designers such as Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious.