ABSTRACT
A sculptor, draughtsman and etcher. She came to England from her native Poland in 1939 and settled in Sheffield. She attended Sheffield College of Art (1944-6), and the RCA (1952-7), her fifth year being a Phoebe Stabler bequest. There she studied under FrankDobsonand then JohnSkeaping, and attended Leon Underwood'sdrawing classes. At this time she was invited to become JacobEpstein'sassistant, but had to refuse owing to her own commissions, working on the Observer Film Exhibition and the Telford Bicentenary Exhibition, both for Richard Buckle. She taught at Hornsey College of Art (1957-66). In 1958 she executed eleven busts of English men of letters for Sir Hugh Casson's section of the Brussels World Fair, and again worked for Buckle on the Shakespeare Exhibition, Stratford (1964). A further major exhibition commission was that of forty-five sculptures for the British Pavilion in Montreal at Expo '67. Her portraits include one of Lord Mountbatten as Viceroy of India (1968) and a memorial bronze of Winston Churchill for the Sultan of Brunei. Her portrait of Marie Rambert (1971) is in the National Portrait Gallery. In 1977 she was commissioned to make groups for the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv; her 75 m-tall Orpheus with a Leopard (1980-4) is a central fountain figure at Harewood House; Cyparissus and his Stag (1989-95, bronze) for Mick Jagger is in France; Ulysses and his Dog Argus (1997, bronze) was commissioned by Charlie Watts, also of the Rolling Stones, and his wife Shirley.
