Phyllis Ethel Ginger (19 October 1907 – 3 May 2005) was a British artist and illustrator who, although she had a long career in several different media, is now best known for the topographical watercolours she produced during the Second World War for the Recording Britain project.
[2][4][5] In 1938 she exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time and in 1939 joined the Senefelder Club and also the Allied International Artists group, with which she showed twice.
Several of the watercolours Ginger produced, such as her depictions of the Council House, Bristol and of Catherine Place in Bath include elements of bomb damage.
American servicemen feature in her pictures of Cheltenham while a barrage balloon is visible in one of the three paintings she made of Regent's Park during the conflict.
[8] In 1946, Ginger returned to London, having moved to Keynsham near Bristol and then Marlow during the War and resumed her commercial career.