Margaret Valerie Jean Nellist (née Woolf; 10 December 1923 – 9 April 2023), better known as Meg Woolf, and later Meg Woolf-Nellist, was a British artist, known for her watercolour paintings and for her sculptures.
Biography
editMargaret Valerie Jean Woolf was born at Thanet in Kent on 10 December 1923,[1] and studied at the Bromley School of Art and at the Beckenham School of Art between 1939 and 1942.[2]
After a further period of study at the Brighton School of Art, Woolf taught art at colleges in Britain, including at the Rachel McMillan College of Education, and in Bermuda.[3]
Woolf had a solo exhibition in 1948 at the Hove Museum and Art Gallery.[3] Woolf exhibited work at both the Royal Academy in London and with the Royal Society of British Artists, with the Artists' International Association and at commercial galleries in Britain and overseas. As well as painting with watercolours, Woolf created sculptures in stone, wood and ivory.[2]
Woolf died on 9 April 2023, at the age of 99.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Woolf, Margaret V J". FreeBMD. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ a b James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0902028553.
- ^ a b David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
- ^ "Margaret Valerie Jean Nellist". Probate Search. Retrieved 30 January 2024.