Grace Digby | |
Birth Date: | 1895 |
Birth Place: | Scarborough in North Yorkshire |
Death Date: | 1964 |
Nationality: | British |
Occupation: | Artist, jewellery designer |
Grace Digby (1895–1964) was a British artist, notable as a landscape painter and jewellery designer.
Digby was born at Scarborough in North Yorkshire and studied in Brussels.[1] She was educated at the Brussels Academie and Conservatoire and also studied painting at the atelier of Blanc Garin.[2] During her career she made jewellery, painted landscapes in both oils and watercolours and designed posters.[2] Digby was also a talented violinist, and won medals in competitions in Brussels and Tournai.[2]
Digby exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, with the Royal Cambrian Academy and also in Europe, the United States and in Australia.[1] Between 1948 and 1964 she was a regular exhibitor with the Society of Women Artists and was a full member of the Society from 1961.[2]
Digby lived in Birmingham during her adult life and exhibited with both the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Birmingham Art Circle and also had a solo exhibition in the city during 1925.[2] The Imperial War Museum has her oil painting, After the Shelling, Louvain 1914 in its collection.[3]