Peggy Angus

[3] At the RCA, her contemporaries included the sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, the painters Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden, and illustrators Barnett Freedman and Enid Marx.

She eschewed a bourgeois lifestyle for places without modern conveniences, such as Furlongs on the Sussex Downs and her bothie she bought from the artist Charles Higgins in the Outer Hebrides.

This coincided with the 1960s expansion of DIY and the development of "choose your own colour mix" vinyl emulsion paints which she used with hand-cut linoleum printing blocks.

She won the Sanderson Centenary wallpaper prize but their subsequent commercial version, which had the regularity of a machine-printed design, was far less restful to the eye than the subtle changes of pigment and pressure when done by her own methods.

[10][11] Ishbel MacDonald was a lifelong friend and Angus occasionally stayed at Chequers with her and enjoyed the subversiveness of drawing cartoons for the Daily Worker while she was there.

[citation needed] From 1933 onwards, Angus rented a shepherd's cottage, Furlongs, near Beddingham at the foot of the South Downs, and made that a home to which a circle of artists gathered.

Ravilious considered that his time at Furlongs:[8] "...altered my whole outlook and way of painting, I think because the colour of the landscape was so lovely and the design so beautifully obvious ... that I simply had to abandon my tinted drawings.

[12] Other visitors included Herbert Read, Olive Cook, Edwin Smith, Percy Horton,[1] Maurice de Sausmarez,[13] the architects Moholy-Nagy, Serge Chermayeff, Ernő Goldfinger, Frederick Gibberd, Maxwell Fry, and Jane Drew.

After the war, she taught briefly alongside Quentin Bell at a private girls' school in Sussex (they had been friends and colleagues in the Artists International Association).

[7] As head of art at North London Collegiate, her own old school, she believed in setting up communal projects where pupils' works could be displayed to their best advantage.

She fostered a community of artists and designers in South East England, having a durable influence on decorative arts and fashion, for instance through Janet Kennedy.