The pioneering abstract painter is celebrated for her exploration of vibrant colour and bold forms used to create exuberant compositions full of movement and energy.
She started studying art in 1946 and enrolled at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.
Her energetic works were created on a grand scale and evoke a sense of vitality and playfulness. Her huge, improvised canvases were covered in paint sometimes an inch or two thick.
Her paintings and prints are held by major museums and galleries around the world including Tate, London; British Museum, London; Arts Council, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Ulster Museum, Belfast; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Museum of Modern Art, Brasilia.
