Margaret Evans obituary

My friend Margaret Evans, who has died aged 82, was an intuitive, vibrant painter who, during her time at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, made a particular impression on its principal, William Coldstream.

I met Maggie when she arrived at the Slade in 1954. She was already an experienced painter who knew what she wanted to do. She spent a great deal of time in the life rooms at the Slade, but did her best work in her room at the student hostel. This was her world, crowded with the things she collected – tea mugs, vases, bric-a-brac, reproductions, colourful tablecloths, folders, sheaves of paper – as well as her pastels and paint tubes, an easel and canvases.