Painter, printmaker and illuminator, born in Penge, southeast London, as Alixe, also known as Alice, Jean Shearer (her husband was a civil servant, Henry Armstrong). She studied at Slade School of Fine Art, 1912–14, also in Karlsruhe, Germany, and briefly with Stanhope Forbes in Newlyn, having moved to Cornwall in 1921. Armstrong showed with RA, RSA and Penwith Society of Arts of which she was a founder member, with St Ives Society of Arts and Taurus Artists as a member, elsewhere in the provinces and widely abroad. Had solo shows at Chiltern Gallery and Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh. She had a studio in St Ives for many years, living in Carbis Bay. The windswept romanticism of Cornwall was a key element in Armstrong’s work. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Scottish Education Committee and Cornwall Education Authority hold examples.