Born in Sutton, Surrey Margaret Tournour attended the Croyden School of Art in 1938 to study drawing. She did some illustrated work for the O.U.P. children’s books and nature books and scraper-board illustrations for use in bible booklets. In 1952 she entered the teaching order of the Society of the Sacred Heart and teaching took up most of her time until she retired in 1984. She joined a community of Twelve Nuns in Blyth. Northumberland where she had the opportunity to take up wood-engraving again and to illustrate for the Private Presses and to issue hand-printed proofs of mainly nature and animal subjects.