Patience Mary Hallward was born in London being the second of five children to the artists Reginald Francis and Adelaide (nee Bloxham) Hallward. Like her parents, she was an artist and print-maker and also a designer of jewellery in the arts & crafts style. She excelled at lithography joining the Senefelder Club in 1928 and exhibiting with them including the important International Exhibition of Lithography at Fulham Central Library in 1934. She also exhibited at the RA; RHS; Arlington Gallery and Dowdeswell’s Gallery. Her lithographs were published in small editions of between five and twenty impressions and are scarce today.