Plush Mills residents Dora and Cecil Noble were among the first couples to move into Plush Mills in 2007, relocating here to be near their children and grandchildren.

Native Canadians, they followed Mr. Noble’s entrepreneurial opportunities to London in the 1950s and raised a family in Hampstead. They lived in England for more than 50 years.

Without a strict academic background in the arts, Mrs. Noble became one of the most prominent sculptors in England, where she was a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors and the Artists Club.

Mrs. Noble has created more than 100 sculpted heads, many of prominent subjects like Golda Meir, Placido Domingo and David Ben-Gurion.

Her most recent work is a bust of President Barack Obama, which she finished sculpting in clay this June in her studio at the Community Arts Center, a close neighbor of Plush Mills. Mrs. Noble plans to send the President a copy of the finished bronze casting when it returns from the foundry later this summer.

Mrs. Noble with a bronze bust of her mother

Three of Mrs. Noble’s earlier works including Golda Meir and Mrs. Noble’s daughter Laura

Mrs. Noble and her clay sculpture of the President’s bust.