Helen Edwards (artist)

Helen Edwards
Born
Helen Sutton

18 February 1882
Eastbourne, Sussex
Died18 January 1963(1963-01-18) (aged 80)
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
NationalityBritish
Known forLandscape painting
SpouseGeorge Herbert Edwards

Helen Constance Pym Edwards née Sutton, (18 February 1882 – 1963) was a British landscape painter.

Biography

Edwards was born and educated in Eastbourne in Sussex.[1] Between 1906 and 1908 she studied art under Algernon Talmage at St Ives in Cornwall.[2] She took further art lessons with H Dawson Barkas during 1909 at Reading in Berkshire.[2][1] During her artistic career Edwards mainly painted landscapes, working in oils, pastels and watercolours.[1] She exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists, with the Portrait Society and the Society of Women Artists.[2][1] In 1933 Edwards was elected a member of the British Watercolour Society.[2] Edwards lived for a long period at Parkstone in Dorset and regularly exhibited with local art societies throughout Hampshire and Dorset.[3] Several pastels by Edwards were reproduced by the Medici Society.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  2. ^ a b c d Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
  3. ^ a b David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.