JOAN WARBURTON (1920-1996)

Warburton was born in Edinburgh, but grew up near Colchester. In 1937, she enrolled as one of the first students of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines at their now legendary East Anglian School of Painting at Dedham. After the war, Warburton married Peter O’ Malley, a ceramics lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and they settled in London. Her work featured in numerous group and solo shows including at the Leicester Galleries, London.