Painter, maker of reliefs and collages and sculptor, born in Wu-Kung-Fu, China, of Scottish parents. Moved to Britain as a baby, was educated in Edinburgh and attended the college of Art there, 1929-33, her teachers including Hubert Wellington and S J Peploe. A postgraduate award and scholarship enabled her to study and travel on the continent, where she was taught in Paris by Andre Lhote.

From 1935-7 she held a fellowship at Edinburgh College of Art. Then studied at Euston Road School and in 1939 with her first husband, Adrian Stokes (she later married Francis Davison), moved to St.Ives where they became key figures in the artist’s colony. There she was influenced by Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo and adopted a Constructivist style, making reliefs, returning to painting after the war, when she lived for two years from 1948 in the south of France. Returning to England in 1950 she went to live in Suffolk, settling in Southwold, where found objects and driftwood were employed in her work.

Exhibited widely in group shows and had many solo exhibitions, including AIA Gallery, Bear Gallery in Oxford, Redfern gallery and a retrospective at City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1997, Victoria & Albert Museum, Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and other public galleries hold examples.