Madge FAWKES
Born at Eggington near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, the young Madeline grew up in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. She later lived in London, studied in Paris, and then with Stanhope FORBES in Newlyn and Samuel John Lamorna BIRCH at Lamorna. She did a drawing of Florence CARTER-WOOD, a friend and fellow student at the Forbes School.
In 1909 she exhibited a series of miniatures on ivory at NAG, and sold Pollie in 1909 and The Bargee’s Daughter there in 1910. The Lamorna Society records show that she worked in Lamorna in the 1920s and exhibited until 1931.
media
Painter of miniatures; flowers, landscapes and portraits
works and access
Works include: woodcut in The Paper Chase, Vol II
exhibitions
BIR; LI; SPP;
RA (10);
SWA (5)
NAG 1909, 1910, March 1914
memberships
NSA
misc further info
references
Cornish Telegraph 25 Mar 1909;
St Ives Times 27 Mar 1914;
Green (2002) Posing the Model;
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn & West Cornwall p113-8, Footnote 2: a guest who 'drew a pig for Mornie's Pigbook'. [Extract from In Time & Place Lamorna]
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall
Hoyle, H (March 2013 Women Artists in Cornwall www.cornishmuse.blogspot.com) 'Summer in February - Art in Lamorna 1910-1914'
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists;
NAG sales records (repr in Hardie 2009);
The Paper Chase, p48 (woodblock)
http://www.thelamornasociety.org.uk/