In 1907 Margaret Watson (1879-1964), the daughter of a clergyman, left her middle-class home in Cambridge, England, to join an Anglican sisterhood, the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord, in Grahamstown (now Makhanda). The nuns were committed to educational and caring work among young people of all races and built a network of schools, orphanages and homes across Southern Africa. Sister Margaret also worked as a painter, completing murals for the Chapel of the Training College which the Sisters established in Grahamstown, and for the Anglican church of St Augustine’s in Zululand. She also painted St. Francis on the Johannesburg mine dumps and Mary, mother of Jesus, amongst the people of Sophiatown for the Church of Christ the King in Sophiatown.