Artist potter with Leach 1927-30.

In 1928 she exhibited her work at the Beaux Arts Gallery in Bond Street.  After a fire at the Leach Pottery destroyed much of her work, she left St Ives to teach art at Cheltenham Ladies College, re-connecting with her interest in pottery by working with Michael CARDEW at the Winchcombe Pottery nearby.

In 1932 she married Edward BAWDEN who had been a fellow student with her at the Royal College of Art, a designer who later became a war artist, and they moved to Essex. She is mentioned in the article 'A Conversation with David Leach' in Ceramics Monthly (Jan 1997): "Very early on a woman named Muriel BELL from Canada worked at St Ives about the time I first joined the pottery. She went on to set up a pottery. Then just after Muriel Bell came Charlotte Epton who latter married Edward Bawden, the war artist. Neither of these women were there very long".