School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Rosemary (Ray) Howard-Jones

Born: 1903, UK, England, Berkshire, Lambourne   Died: 1996, London

Painter and poet. Grew up in Penarth, South Wales. Studied at the Slade School, 1920-23. Worked as an Official War Artist during the Second World War. Companion of the photographer Raymond Moore (1920-1987). She lived and worked mainly in Pembrokeshire including nine seasons spent on Skomer Island during the 1950s. She became an oblate of the Anglican Benedictine Order. She adopted the name 'Ray' to disguise her gender when exhibiting her paintings of natural history, seascapes and landscapes

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Sunset on Skomer OP59 Oil Paintings




 
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