Dublin born artist Evie Hone studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster School of Art, London. Between 1921 and 1923 she studied cubism under Andrè Lhote and Albert Gleizes in Paris. Hone began to work in stained glass during the 1930s. She joined ‘An Túr Gloine’, the co-operative established by Sarah Purser in 1903. She received major nation and international commissions including ‘My Four Green Fields’, made for the Irish government’s pavilion at the 1939 New York World Trade Fair.