Artist Info
Myrtle Fasken
From an Indian Army background, Myrtle Fasken was a nurse in Mesopotamia during World War I. At the Central School she became a close friend of fellow students Adelaide Swift, Cecily Griffiths, Mary Crookshank and Hilda Quick, examples of whose work are included in a portfolio belonging to Fasken acquired by CSMCAD in 1998.
She exhibited seven prints with the Society of Wood Engravers between 1923 and 1931. At the end of World War II she lived in Marlborough and was a hospital matron. She painted all the orchids of Wiltshire for Devizes Museum.