1928 -

Sculptor. Born in Pilsen, she attended the Academy of Creative Arts in Prague, where one of her teachers was Karel Pokorny. Her final state diploma work was a portrait. In collaboration with two other sculptors, one of whom was her first husband, Ludwig Kodym, she worked on prestigious projects, including the reliefs for the walls of the Lenin Museum in Prague. She also received a commission for a Monument to Victims of Fascism in Moravia, for Velke Meziřici. She came to England in 1966, and stayed on, though her second husband, a paediatrician, returned to Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968. She joined the Society of Portrait sculptors and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. She has executed many portraits of actors, singers, musicians and TV personalities, several of these for the actor and collector, Richard Bebb. A statue of Freddie Mercury by her was erected at Montreux, Switzerland, in 1996. She has done a number of imaginary portraits of literary figures for the publisher, Felix Dennis. She married the sculptor Franta Belsky in 1997.