Mary Stella Edwards (1898-1989)

Θέση: Hampstead

Γεννημένος: 1898

Θάνατος: 1989

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Mary Stella Edwards was an English painter, creator of dioramas and poet. She was born in Hampstead, London in 1898 and died in Staines, Middlesex in 1989. She studied art at the Royal College of Art and The Regent Street Polytechnic where she met fellow student Judith Ackland. They became life partners and used a tiny cabin, a former fisherman's store, at Bucks Mills as their studio from 1924 until Ackland's death in 1971. Together with Ackland, Edwards produced dioramas, Ackland made all the models and Edwards painted their backdrops. The town of Windsor commissioned these dioramas to celebrate the town's history, and they are now at the Windsor & Royal Borough Museum. Edwards was also a poet and published several volumes throughout her life. She published her first book of poetry Time and Chance in 1926 with the Hogarth Press of Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. The London antique dealer Maggs Bros Ltd has a copy of this book dedicated to Irish publisher and book collector Alan Clodd.