My sister Ann Gillespie, who has died aged 87, was an artist who co-founded a design studio in the 1960s and later became an art therapist.
Ann was born in Poole, Dorset, to Ken Reason, who managed a printing works for Kodak, and Hilda (nee Whittlestone), a housewife and primary school teacher. After schooling at James Allen’s girls’ school in south London, at 16 she went to study at St Martin’s School of Art, and at 17 she travelled with a friend to Florence, returning with sketchbooks of ink drawings of the city which the family still treasure.
