Robina Esme Roberts (13 December 1911 – 1995) was a British artist, best known for her poster designs.[1]
She was born on 13 December 1911[2] (or possibly 8 December 1912), and raised in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.[1] Roberts trained in Vienna and Munich.[1]
Roberts created book covers, illustrations and Art Deco designs.[1] Many examples of her work are on show in the Sleaford Museum.[1]
Her 1934 and 1935 Art Deco posters advertising steamer cruises to the Royal Dock are in the permanent collection of the London Transport Museum.[3] [4]
In 1939, she married George Gordon Jeudwine (1913–1954) in Kensington, London, and they moved to Rauceby, Lincolnshire.[1] [5] He was the son of George Gordon Jeudwine and Alice Mildred Phelps, and the grandson of George Wynne Jeudwine (1849–1933). On his death on 20 October 1954, he was a solicitor of Peake, Snow & Jeudwine, 5 Market Street, Sleaford, and was living at Eastgate House, Sleaford.[6]
In 1959, as Robina Jeudwine a now single woman, she travelled on a Compañía Transatlántica Española ship to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.[7] She died in 1995 in Gloucestershire.[2]