Violet M DIGBY

Mrs Violet M DIGBY
nee KIDD

Violet was born in Plymouth, Devon. After studying at the Hastings School of Art under Philip Cole and Leslie Badham, she went on to the Slade and the Beaux Arts, Paris. She specialised in flower paintings in oil, but also produced genre scenes and landscapes.

Her work is first mentioned locally in a review of STISA's Summer 1950 Exhibition, when she was then living at Studio Cottage, The Belyars, St Ives. In the 1950s, she showed work from the Piazza Studios (Tovey). She also travelled widely, exhibiting paintings of Norway, and in 1953 visited India.

media

Painter in oils of genre, and flowers

works and access

Works include: paintings of Norway in oils (1951)

exhibitions

STISA Summer 1950, 1951 Show Day (paintings of Norway in oils), 1951 Festival of Britain

memberships

STISA 1950-60

references

Buckman (2006) Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945

Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists

Tovey (2003) Creating a Splash

           (2009) St Ives: Social History