Margaret Pullee

Margaret Pullée (née Fisher) was born in New York in 1910 and was educated at Mayfield School in Putney, London. She pursued her artistic training at Chelsea School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art from 1928 to 1932. During her time at the Royal College, she met her future husband, Edward Pullée, a fellow artist who would later become a leading figure in British art education.

Early in her career, Margaret undertook commissions for illustrations in Radio Times and designed posters for London Transport. Her work was characterised by a distinctive, naïve style that evocatively depicted everyday life in a dream-like manner.

From 1958, she began exhibiting at the Royal Academy and, in 1964, was elected a member of the New English Art Club (NEAC), where she remained a regular exhibitor until her death in 2003.