The artist was born in Manchester, and exhibited one painting in 1900 (under Blakeney) at the Paris Salon, Isabella. She was President of the Society of Women Artists 1923-1931, the Vice-President at the time being Dorothea SHARP. She married Charles Daniel WARD, also an artist, and painted portraits of fashionable London people. Her visits to Cornwall were working holidays and to be with friends such as Dorothea SHARP and Helen SEDDON where they often painted together in the open air.