1927 -

(née Ashe) Sculptor. Born in 1927 in Richmond (Surrey), she studied at Guildford and Chelsea Schools of Art, and exhibited sculpture at the Royal Academy from the age of nineteen. Married to an army officer, she only began to devote herself full-time to sculpture in her forties. Her first commission, which she received after her husband had placed her name in the Yellow Pages as a sculptor, was for a relief plaque illustrating the History of Communications, for the printing firm of Staples. Several of her subsequent commissions have been for military commemorations. Apart from her three statues in Westminster, Winter sculpted a group of two solders for Catterick Camp in Yorkshire, and a War Memorial relief with scenes from the Falklands War, which was erected at Port Stanley on the second anniversary of the islands’ liberation.She has also done statues of historical figures: one of John Ray, commissioned by Braintree Borough Council, and another of Archbishop George Abbot, which was unveiled in Guildford by Lord Runcie on 3 April 1993. Children figure prominently in her work, and a Boy with a Carp is the subject of the Pearce Memorial, which was erected at Thame (Oxon) in 1992.Winter builds her figures up directly in plaster in her studio in Puttenham in Surrey. She is a member of the Society of Portrait sculptors and an assocate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.