Viola Paterson was a Scottish artist born in Helensburgh, daughter of the painter Alexander Nesbit Paterson. She studied under Tonks at the Slade in 1918 and from 1919-1923 under Maurice Grieffenhagen in Glasgow and later (1924-5) in Paris at the Academie Lhote and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere under Lucien Simon Besnard. A painter and graphic artist in all the mediums, she exhibited at the Redfern and other Galleries throughout the 1930’s and at the RA, RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, SSA, and the Society of Artist Printmakers. A retrospective was held at the Round House, Havering-atte-Bower in 1983. Ref: David Buckman,1998.