1919Born on 11 November, the late and only child of Eric Clough Taylor, a civil servant and writer of poetry, and his wife, Thelma Gray, the daughter of an amateur painter and sister of the designer Eileen Gray. The family lived in London, in Onslow Square, South Kensington, in some comfort and with servants. Her father died when she was young and she cared for her mother until her death in the Sixties. In the Seventies she travelled to and from Paris caring for Eileen Gray in her home in the rue Bonaparte.
1938Enrols at the Chelsea School of Art whose teachers at that time included Graham Sutherland, Julian Trevelyan and Henry Moore. From 1956 to 1969 she herself was a teacher at Chelsea. From 1966 to 1997 she taught at the Wimbledon School of Art.
1939During the Second World War she worked for the War Office of Information (USA) drawing charts and maps and laying out magazines. She spent one winter working in devastated post-war Holland.
1946 onwardsShe studied at Camberwell and had her first exhibitions; the Leger Gallery in 1947 and Rowland, Browse and Delbanco on 1949. By the time of her death in 1999 she had had twenty-six solo exhibitions and been seen in over fifty group shows. The most significant were:
1960Whitechapel Gallery, London, curated by Bryan Robertson
1972Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
1976Serpentine Gallery, London National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1982Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeWarwick Art Trust, London
1996Camden Arts Centre, London
1999Kettle's Yard, CambridgeGraves Art Gallery, SheffieldAwarded the Jerwood Painting Prize.Died 26 December 1999