Grace Digby (1895–1964) was a British artist, notable as a landscape painter and jewellery designer.

Biography

Digby was born at Scarborough in North Yorkshire and studied in Brussels.[1] She was educated at the Brussels Academie and Conservatoire and also studied painting at the atelier of Blanc Garin.[2] During her career she made jewellery, painted landscapes in both oils and watercolours and designed posters.[2] Digby was also a talented violinist, and won medals in competitions in Brussels and Tournai.[2]

Digby exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, with the Royal Cambrian Academy and also in Europe, the United States and in Australia.[1] Between 1948 and 1964 she was a regular exhibitor with the Society of Women Artists and was a full member of the Society from 1961.[2]

Digby lived in Birmingham during her adult life and exhibited with both the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Birmingham Art Circle and also had a solo exhibition in the city during 1925.[2] The Imperial War Museum has her oil painting, After the Shelling, Louvain 1914 in its collection.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978-1-911121-63-3.
  3. ↑ "After the Shelling, Louvain". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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