My friend Renate Keeping, who has died aged 84, was an inspirational artist, teacher and friend, who used her art to explore ideas and to wrestle with questions about her own life.
She was born Renate Meyer in Berlin, but her father, a doctor, realised that Jewish people would suffer in Hitler's Germany, so the family came to Britain in 1933 as refugees and gained British citizenship in 1938.
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