Painter whose work included delicate still lifes, daughter of the artist Simon Bussy and his wife Dorothy Strachey. She remained with her parents, spending the winter months in France at Roquebrune within sight of the Mediterranean, returning with them to England in the spring. Her work was included in the show Sixty Years On, at The Bloomsbury Workshop, in 1998. For this Angelica Garnett wrote a memoir of Janie Bussy, recalling her Anglo-French cultivation, slim and slightly curved figure, fragile health and croaky voice caused by chronic bronchitis, unerring taste in clothes and “lively and life enhancing nature.”

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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