Biography
Myrtle Fasken (b. UK 1899 – d. 1972) studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London where her fellow students included Adelaide Swift, Cecily Griffiths, Mary Crookshank and Hilda Quirk. During WW1 she was in Mesopotamia as nurse and after WWII she was a hospital matron and lived in Marlborough, Wiltshire. In 1929 she visited and worked in Australia, where her brother farmed. She exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers between 1923-31. Her work was included in A Survey of Australian Relief prints 1900-1950 held in Melbourne in 1978.
