Early Life, Family and Training Alethea Garstin entered the world in Penzance, Cornwall, on 1 June 1894. She was born into a household where the brush and the canvas were constant companions, the daughter of the painter Norman Garstin and his wife Louisa. Her brother, Crosbie Garstin, would eventually find his own way through the written word, but for Alethea, the visual language of her father was the primary tongue. This domestic env…