Mary Cozens-Walker obituary

My friend Mary Cozens-Walker, who has died aged 82, was a multimedia artist whose work defied categorisation. Not strictly a painter or sculptor, or an embroiderer, she developed her own paint-stitch style on cloth, papier-mache and found objects, to chronicle the intimacies and intricacies of daily life.The result was an unrestrained and distinctive body of work with nods to an older tradition of English art: fairgrounds and ship figureheads, Gwen John, Stanley Spencer, and the satirical comic