Born in Chile in 1904 ‎(‎to Scottish parents‎)‎‎,‎ Peggy moved as a child to London‎.‎ A student of the Royal College of Art in the 1920s‎,‎ her contemporaries included Eric Ravilious‎,‎ Edward Bawden‎,‎ Enid Marx and Helen Binyon‎.‎ Peggy travelled extensively throughout her life‎,‎ she captured places‎,‎ people and scenes of everyday life with an intuitive perception‎.‎ The portraits she painted are highly original‎;‎ the designs she created for the wallpapers and ceramics that furnished her interiors are uniquely styled‎.‎ Following WWII she began producing patterned tiles‎,‎ adapting the design skills she had taught in the classroom‎,‎ and up to the 1950s her colourful and decorative tile murals‎,‎ commissioned by Carters of Poole‎,‎ were used in a range of newly constructed buildings‎.‎ Her success in this area prompted her to experiment with wallpaper design‎,‎ creating a diverse body of work that carries echoes of an artist and designer whom she admired