[3] Through Clarke she obtained a commission to illustrate Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (London, 1926).

She attended the Chelsea Polytechnic in London[2] before spending the 1920s working in Dublin as a book illustrator and stage designer.

She settled in 1925 in Wicklow and was involved in the literary and theatrical life of Dublin, designing for the Abbey and Peacock theatres and illustrating W. B. Yeats’s Stories of Red Hanrahan (London, 1927).

[5] From 1937-39 she lived in New York, where she exhibited her paintings, created illustrations for Harper’s Bazaar and designed windows for Altman’s department store on Fifth Avenue.

She helped found the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943 and became its president in 1944 after the death of Mainie Jellett.