Gladys HYNES
Born at Indore, India, she studied initially at the London School of Art.
On the death of her mother in 1911, Gladys moved with her family to Penmorvah, Alexandra Road, in Penzance, and enrolled at the Forbes School. Very little of her work from this period has survived.
In 1914 she returned to London, working during World War I for Roger Fry's Omega workshops and enjoying a bohemian lifestyle. In 1919 she set up her studio permanently in Hampstead.
Her superb painting, entitled 'Morning', appeared for auction in Paris in 2019, having been part of the collection of impressionist and modern art at the Petit Palais in Geneva. This unusual artwork, whose background clearly depicts Lamorna Cove, takes as its subject a group portrait of idealised female bathers emerging from a swim. It attracted a great deal of critical acclaim.
Buckman comments that among her most notable works were the illustrations she created for Ezra Pound's Cantos (published by J Rodker).
media
Sculptor, figure painter and draughtsman
works and access
Works include: Birds of paradise; The Fowler (col pl in Hardie 2009); Morning;
Access to work: Painting (on stalls), St Hilary Church, Cornwall
exhibitions
RA
RI
LG
London Salon
Paris Salon
NAG
references
Benezit
Buckman (2006) Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945
Green (2002) Posing the Model
Hardie (1995) 100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists;
Tovey (2022) Lamorna - An Artistic, Social and Literary History - Volume I - Pre-1920, Wilson Books