King was born in London and studied at the
Hornsey School of Art and at the
Slade School of Art where she was taught by
Randolph Schwabe. During World War II King worked as a Welfare Officer and as the supervisor of a rest centre in the
East End of London. In 1947 she was elected a member of the
Royal Society of British Artists, RBA. She retired from the South London Art Gallery in 1974 to concentrate on painting, although she continued to teach at Southwark for a time. During her artistic career King exhibited at the
Royal Academy in London, with the
New English Art Club, the
Society of Women Artists and the
Glasgow Institute of Fine Art. The South London Art Gallery held a retrospective exhibition to mark her retirement in 1974 and the
Mall Galleries held a memorial show in 1992. ==References==