Marion Adnams

[1] Her artistic interests were encouraged from an early age by her father, himself a woodwork teacher at Derby School.

[4] She began her career not as a language teacher, but as art mistress at Derby's Central School for Girls before being recommended for a transfer to the newly opened Homelands Grammar School for Girls, by the Derbyshire Education Committee, in October 1937.

[5][3] She was appointed senior lecturer at Derby Diocesan Training College in 1948, where she rose to become Head of Art.

[6] Between 1938 and 1970, Adnams painted the surrealist works for which she is principally known, exhibiting at the British Art Centre in London, alongside Duncan Grant, Augustus John, Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, and Eileen Agar.

In 1944 she exhibited her work at the Modern Art Gallery in London, alongside Jack Bilbo and Max Ernst.