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Sarah Colegrave
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Medium
Watercolour and pencil
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Signed/Inscribed/Dated
Signed
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Dimensions
11.50cm wide
15.50cm high
(4.53 inches wide 6.10 inches high)
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Description / Expertise
Alma K M Elliott was born in Leicester in 1892. In 1907 she was examined by the University of Cambridge as a non-member and passed several exams including drawing and freehand design. She studied at the School of Art in Leicester and was awarded a four year scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London to study engraving. She went on to the Slade where she studied under Wilson Steer and Tonks who awarded her with the Orpen Bursary. She was also invited to show a watercolour and a drawing at the Centenary celebrations of the University of London when the Slade School contributed an exhibition.
She painted in France, Holland, Austria and Switzerland but up to the 1920’s she largely undertook commissions for book illustrations. She became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and other London venues. In 1921 she married the sculptor Thomas Bayley, who she had met at the Royal College of Art and they started life together in a Chelsea studio but later moved to Chiswick.
During the war she joined the Women’s Land Army in Worcester as well as spending a time working in soup kitchens in London.
She was widowed in 1968 and settled in Rottingdean where she became active in the artistic world of Brighton and Sussex. She was a regular exhibitor with the Sussex Artists Exhibitions at Brighton Art Gallery as well as still exhibiting in London. A memorial exhibition of her work was held in Brighton in 1985.
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