She was a pupil of Noel Rooke at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and exhibited regularly with the Society of Wood Engravers.
[2][3] She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London from 1917 to 1922 under Noel Rooke for wood engraving and F. Ernest Jackson for tempera painting.
[3] From 1920 she specialised in recording gypsy caravans on Hampstead Heath, and in 1922 she designed a poster Happy days at the zoo for London County Council Tramways.
[4] She was a finalist in the British Prix de Rome scholarship competition in 1925 and in 1931 received the Logan Medal of the Arts at the International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving in Chicago, for her print Wagon on the Heath.
[2] During her career, Jackson completed a number of public commissions for murals, notably for St Peter's Church at Limehouse in east London.