ABSTRACT
Self-taught as a painter and linocut artist, she was trained in medicine and after a distinguished career as a surgeon during the First World War, then as a GP and District MO in Australia, she returned to England in 1922. her pioneering research into the psychology of delinquency gave way to the study of that of art following her meeting with Rueben Mednikoff, whom she eventually married. She exhibited in the First International Surrealist Exhibition, where her work was praised by Andre Breton. She spent the Second World War in Canada, returning to the UK in 1946. AW
