Mary Wykeham, Desert Tents (yellow, brown, black and red), 1979Mary Wykeham was a British painter, printmaker and poet. Throughout her long artistic career, she lived many lives. She was a young trainee nurse in London taking evening art classes at the Slade School of Art; an anti fascist in Berlin helping Jewish artists flee the Nazi regime; a communist tailed through London by MI5; a Surrealist exhibiting alongside Eileen Agar, Salvador Dal and Ren Magritte; and eventually a nun with a higher devotional