[1] She was educated at North London Collegiate School, London (where she was taught by Peggy Angus)[1] and the Slade School of Art[1] (where her contemporaries included Mario Dubsky, Dorothy Mead and Dennis Creffield and future RAs Ben Levene, Patrick Procktor and Anthony Green).

In 1967 she traveled to America when Green received a Harkness Fellowship and spent two years living in Leonia, New Jersey and Altadena, California.

[1] Cozens-Walker's early artistic influences included Stanley Spencer, Piero della Francesca and the Euston Road School.

She had begun to experiment with stitching in America, and embroidery via individual projects, and this led to her seeking professional advice from the Royal School of Needlework.

[2] Cozens-Walker made her name as an artist combining paint, textiles and papier-mâché, and led to solo exhibitions in the UK, Japan and North America.