Hawksley was born in London and studied at
St John's Wood School of Art and then at the
Royal Academy Schools, winning awards at both including a silver medal and the Landseer Scholarship at the latter. She taught privately for many years after graduation and exhibited at several galleries and venues. These included the
Royal Academy and the
Fine Art Society in London, with the
Society of Women Artists, at the
Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at the
Paris Salon where she won a silver medal in 1931. the
Witt Library, the
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery and the
National Portrait Gallery, London. Three of Hawksley's pictures were included in
The Last Romantics exhibition held at the
Barbican Art Gallery in 1989 and the Mass Gallery held a retrospective exhibition in 2005. ==References==