Elsie Stevens

Elsie E. Stevens (born 1907) was a British artist, known for her landscape paintings in both oil and watercolours.

Biography

Stevens was born in Brighton on the south coast of England.[1] Beginning in 1961, she studied painting privately in London with the Polish émigré artist Marian Bohusz-Szyszko in London and then the two worked together for some 15 years.[2] Stevens had solo exhibitions at several commercial galleries including the Alwin Gallery, the Woodstock Gallery and both the Loggia and Barrett Galleries.[1][2] She also had exhibitions in Amsterdam, Dublin, Durham, Eastbourne and at the Gardner Arts Centre at the University of Sussex in Brighton during 1973.[1] Stevens was a member of the Free Painters and Sculptors group and for many years lived at Barcombe near Lewes before eventually moving to a nursing home at Wivelsfield Green.[2]

References
  1. Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
  2. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
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