Ivall was poet and painter who lived in Cornwall sporadically in the 1940s and 1950s, and permenantly from the 1960 until her death in 1999.
Ivall was made a bard of the Gorsedh Kernow in 1971, taking the bardic name 'Morvran', Cornish for 'comorant'.
Ivall was born on August 1st 1910 in Hampstead, North London, as the second of four children of William Charles Ivall (1883-1968) and his wife Florence Bessie Ivall, née Endean (1885-1960). Her father worked as a joint account manager for a subsidiary of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). Her mother came from a Cornish family, and as a family, they often visited Cornwall for holidays.
Ivall, like her father, worked for ICI before and during the Second World War. She lived between Devon and Cornwall for a number of years in the 1940s and 1950s, settling in St Agnes in the early 1960s, living at first at Polberro, and then in the village itself.
Ivall mainly painted abstract art, based on the colours and forms of Cornish stones minerals. She worked with oils and palette knife on large canvases, but in later years she began to specialise in watercolours of flowers. She often exhibited locally in Cornwall and Devon, and was the Chairman of Perranporth Art Society.