Thetis Blacker

She appeared in the chorus at Glyndebourne opera in the 1950s and sang the role of "Mother Goose" in The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky.

[1] When her singing career was cut short by vocal issues in the mid-1950s, Blacker turned her focus to painting.

[3] She studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London and was taught by the wife of the artist Leonard Campbell Taylor, Brenda Moore.

She went on to visit Bali and Peru, influencing her style of brightly coloured symbolic pictures using batik dyed fabric.

[4] A number of cathedrals and churches in the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, and the United States commissioned her work including a series of five major pieces based on mythical themes: Apocalypse (at St Andrew's House), Arbor Cosmica, A Bestiary of Mythical Creatures, The Creation (at Winchester Cathedral), and Search for the Simurgh.