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Painter, daughter of the artists Allan Gwynne-Jones and Rosemary Allan and married to the painter Frank Beanland. Between 1965–6 she studied at the Royal Academy Schools, with travel on the continent, then at the Royal College of Art, under Carel Weight, 1967–70, working in Paris in 1968. She won a British Council Travelling Scholarship to Budapest, Hungary, in 1971; worked on costumes for English National Opera, 1973–5; then studied at North-East London Polytechnic and etching with Norman Ackroyd and textiles at Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1977–8. Showed from mid-1960s at RA Summer Exhibitions, also at NEAC and New Grafton Gallery and was a member of the Contemporary Portrait Society. Had solo shows with Michael Parkin Gallery in 1977, King Street Gallery in 1983 and Heveningham Hall, 1993.

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


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