[1] She attended a finishing school in Belgium and then, in 1936, began studying art in Brussels under Oswald Poreau.
From 1937 to 1940 Warburton studied at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham where she was taught by Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines.
[4] After the war, in 1945, Warburton married Peter O'Malley, a ceramics lecturer at the Royal College of Art, RCA, and the couple settled in London.
[5][4] Her work featured in numerous group shows including some at the Royal Academy, with the Society for Education in Art and at the Leicester Galleries.
[5] When O'Malley retired from the RCA, the couple moved to Suffolk where Warburton died in 1996.