She was born in Gravesend, Kent. Her family moved to Hampstead in the 1890s. She was at the Slade School in 1902 and 1903, and later studied with Max Bohm. In 1910 she was in Paris, where she attended the Académie de la Palette, where she worked with Metzinger, J-E Blanche, and J. D. Fergusson…