ABSTRACT
The author was active as a studio portraitist in London from 1916 until the late 1960s. In her 1940 autobiography In Camera, she describes the work which led up to her seminal 1935 exhibition Goddesses and Others, shown at her Berkeley Square studio. Exhibitions are an excellent tonic to the exhibitor. The effort required is stimulating to the imagination and the dread necessity of producing something important by a certain date seems to release into the bloodstream forces which sometimes produce quite startling results. As a selling mart the exhibition has its points, and the author have sometimes had good results, though usually after the lapse of a considerable period of time. Probably the best results come from the one-man show. She has had three ‘one-man’ shows. The first time she hired the Albany Galleries in Sackville Street. Her next exhibition was after she had moved to Berkeley Square and was almost by way of being a house-warming.
