Mercy Hunter

Born 1910; died 1989
Mercy Hunter spent most of her childhood in Manchuria where her father was a Presbyterian missionary. Her mother was Russian. She attended Belfast School of Art 1927-33. Here she studied calligraphy under Edward Johnston. In London she knew Ulster artists William Scott and F.E. McWilliam. On returning to Ulster she married the sculptor George McCann (1909-67) and became head of the Art Department at Victoria College, Belfast. Principally a calligrapher, she also designed theatrical costumes for productions at the Belfast Opera House.