Isobel Atterbury Heath (1907-1989) was a Yorkshire artist, born in Kingston-Upon-Hull, who studied under William Ritson, Robert Blatchford and at Colarossi's in Paris before attending at Leonard Fuller's St Ives School of Painting in the late 1930s. Heath was married for a time to Dr Marc Prati, the political correspondent to La Stampa of Turin, whom she met when he was a prisoner of war. During WWII she worked for the Ministry of Information, drawing and painting factory workers in the munitions and camouflage factories. Isobel Heath was a member of the St Ives Society of Artists and in 1949 became a founder member of the breakaway Penwith Society of Artists but resigned in 1950 and rejoined the St Ives Society of Artists in 1957. Heath also exhibited with the ROI, RI and the RSA. Her studio was in Custom House Lane, St Ives.