Margaret Holgate obituary

My friend Margaret Holgate, who has died aged 97, was a talented designer and an exceptional colourist with a wide range of enthusiasms.

Daughter of David and Ella Greenfield, she was born in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, and went to Newport College of Art and then to the Royal College of Art, London. In 1944 she became a member of the Voluntary Service Overseas, in Egypt, with the task of delivering Egyptian cotton to Crete. Her eight months in charge of a heavy truck resulted in a driving style of great panache, which on occasion could unnerve her passengers.