judith agnes maud ackland was born in bideford, devon, england in 1892. she was a british artist, a landscape painter and creator of dioramas. she studied art at the bideford art school and then moved to the regent street polytechnic. she met her partner mary stella edwards at the regent street polytechnic. they became life partners and used a tiny cabin, a former fisherman’s store, at bucks mills as their studio from 1924 until acklan…