May Oswald Gilbert (16 May 1901 – 21 May 1977) was a New Zealand printmaker and artist, working in watercolours, oils and acrylics.
The family drapery and haberdashery shop, known as "Paris House", was on Parnell Road opposite St John's Catholic Church.
[6] Gilbert attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School, winning a Senior National Scholarship in 1919, and entered Elam School of Fine Arts in 1920, returning in the mid-1930s and attending classes in life drawing and landscapes every year until the early 1940s.
She also taught arts and crafts and drawing at the Diocesan School for Girls, which her sisters had attended from 1920–27.
[6] Gilbert never married and spent much of her time looking after other family members, regularly taking the harbour ferry to Devonport for example and walking to Bayswater to baby-sit and return the next day.