Printmaker, designer, painter and teacher, Sheila Robinson studied at Nottingham School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where she met and married Bernard Cheese. She assisted Edward Bawden with his mural at the Festival of Britain 1951. Mother of Chloe Cheese, she moved to Great Bardfield in 1957 and shortly after joined the staff of the Royal College of Art where she taught until1988. Many examples of her work are in the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden.