Mabel Pakenham-Walsh (2 September 1937 − 19 August 2013)[1] was a British painter, sculptor and designer,[2] and pioneering female artist[citation needed][3] in post-war European figurative art.

[4] Her work was significantly influenced by primitive and outsider art, and created primarily from recycled materials,[1][2][5][6] earning her recognition as an early eco artist.

[9] Pakenham-Walsh was active in the London arts scene throughout the 1960s and '70s, and befriended many significant figures, including Lord Snowdon, Frances Bond, Martin Leman, Maeve and Mervyn Peake, Wendy Ramshaw, and Tom Stoppard.

[1] From the beginning of her career, Pakenham-Walsh created drawings, paintings, and sculptures made almost exclusively from mundane and salvaged materials;[1][2][5][6] this unique strategy was borne of necessity as Pakenham-Walsh encountered "social barriers associated with being a female artist in the mid twentieth century, which made it difficult for her [...] to acquire raw materials for her art.

[1][16] Her work has been shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and is held in numerous public and private collections, including: the National Library of Wales, the Ulster Museum, Aberystwyth University, and the UK Craft Council; the actor and art historian Vincent Price and the photographer Lord Snowdon also admired and collected her work.