Born: 1918

Born in Rangoon, where her father was stationed with his regiment, Euphen Cochran was the great grand-daughter of Colvin Smith the Scottish portrait painter. At the age of 14, she returned to the family home at Ashkirk, near Selkirk, but later contracted spinal tuberculosis and developed her specialisation in flower studies while convalescing.  She married the well-known landscape and flower artist, Stuart Alexander in 1943 but sadly he died only nine years later. Euphen was elected a member and President of the Scottish Society of Women Artists, has exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Glasgow Institute, and received several medals from the Royal Horticultural Society.