Nora Lavrin studied arts with her sister Muriel at the Liverpool School of Art. She won a travelling scholarship in 1920 and spent a year in Paris attending the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
Nora Lavrin studied arts with her sister Muriel at the Liverpool School of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington where she specialized in engraving and etching under Robert Austin. She spent some time in Paris in 1927 attending the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.