Mona Moore

[3] At the start of the Second World War, Tony Bentin served with the Royal Artillery on an anti-aircraft battery in England whilst Moore obtained work as an artist with the Pilgrim Trust on the Recording Britain scheme.

One morning, returning to complete a picture started the previous day near Swansea Castle, Moore found the pile of rubble she been working on had been cordoned off as overnight an unexploded bomb had been detected beneath it.

A photograph of Moore sketching at her easel on the rubble heap the previous day was printed on the front of the South Wales Evening Post on 18 March 1941.

Later in life, Moore would recall the "remarkable experience" of entering the slate mine and seeing "priceless Rembrandts, Van Dycks and Turners, etc stacked in racks".

Moore spent three weeks at Blaenau Ffestiniog and Clark later gave the drawings she produced there as "thank-you" presents to the staff who had engineered the evacuation of the collection.

[11][12] She designed the jacket covers of Alan Sillitoe's first two books, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1958 and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner the following year.