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Adnams, Marion Elizabeth [1898-1985. UK. Painter]
Adnams, Marion Elizabeth [1898-1985. UK. Painter]
Marion Elizabeth Adnams was born in Derby, England on 3 December 1898 and studied modern languages at Nottingham University. She also She attended life classes at Derby School of Art. She died in Derby on 2 November 1995
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Profile of Marion Elizabeth Adnams courtesy of Peter Nahuum at The Leicester Galleries:
Marion Adnams was a versatile artist and teacher, who was born and lived in Derby. Notable for her Surrealist works she was influenced by René Magritte and Paul Nash. She trained as a teacher of modern languages and gained an honours degree in 1919. She attended life classes at Derby School of Art and, in 1936 began to paint with a view to getting her art teacher’s diploma. She gained it in 1938 and was appointed art mistress at Homelands Grammar School for Girls, Derby. She became senior lecturer and head of the department in art at Derby Training College in 1946. She retired in 1960, and then spent much time painting in France.
In 1964-5, she completed a series of murals for Immanuel Church, Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent, but she had to cease painting in 1968 because of failing eyesight.
From the end of the 1930s for about 30 years Marion Adnams showed continuously in London and the provinces and had a retrospective exhibition at Midland Group Gallery in 1971.
Public collections in Manchester, Salford, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and Wolverhampton hold examples of her works. Adnams was a singular woman, who had lived for years in the same tiny house which, even when she was old and blind, appeared as fresh as a St Ives studio of the 1930s. But she could be difficult to deal with, and among the people she fell out with was her mother, also an artist of talent.
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Profile of Marion Elizabeth Adnams courtesy of Peter Nahuum at The Leicester Galleries:
Marion Adnams was a versatile artist and teacher, who was born and lived in Derby. Notable for her Surrealist works she was influenced by René Magritte and Paul Nash. She trained as a teacher of modern languages and gained an honours degree in 1919. She attended life classes at Derby School of Art and, in 1936 began to paint with a view to getting her art teacher’s diploma. She gained it in 1938 and was appointed art mistress at Homelands Grammar School for Girls, Derby. She became senior lecturer and head of the department in art at Derby Training College in 1946. She retired in 1960, and then spent much time painting in France.
In 1964-5, she completed a series of murals for Immanuel Church, Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent, but she had to cease painting in 1968 because of failing eyesight.
From the end of the 1930s for about 30 years Marion Adnams showed continuously in London and the provinces and had a retrospective exhibition at Midland Group Gallery in 1971.
Public collections in Manchester, Salford, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and Wolverhampton hold examples of her works. Adnams was a singular woman, who had lived for years in the same tiny house which, even when she was old and blind, appeared as fresh as a St Ives studio of the 1930s. But she could be difficult to deal with, and among the people she fell out with was her mother, also an artist of talent.
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Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries
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