Designers Patrick Robertson and Rosemary Vercoe began working together in 1960, notably for Jonathan Miller, for whom they designed many plays, including The Marriage of Figaro (RNT), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vienna), The School for Scandal (Cambridge, Mass.), and operas, including The Cunning Little Vixen (Glyndebourne, Australian Opera, Frankfurt and Strasbourg) and The Marriage of Figaro, The Turn of the Screw, Arabella, Otello (ENO).

Rosemary Vercoe designed the costumes for a musical version of Maeterlinck’s The Bluebird (Tokyo). She was also a glass engraver, exhibiting with the Guild of Glass Engravers.

In 1989 Patrick Robertson resumed painting and exhibited at the National Theatre in 1992 and in Cambridge in 1994, as well as in various mixed shows including at the RWS Bankside Gallery.

Patrick Robertson died in 2009; Rosemary Vercoe died in 2013.