She appears in notable works of art by Meredith Frampton, Dame Laura Knight, and Peter Edwards.

Kelsey was born in 1909 in London and by the age of fifteen she had started her career as an artist's model.

She was renowned for her ability to hold a pose for a long time and in this case she appeared without a corset in the fashionable style known as "Las Garconne".

[4] She spent two decades in New Zealand and return to the United Kingdom in the early 1980s suffering with arthritis.

[1] Kelsey appears in paintings by noted artists including, Sir William Reid Dick, Augustus John, Dame Ethel Walker, Sir John Lavery, and Dame Laura Knight.