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1894 Penge. London, England - 1983. Known for: Jungle animals, portraits, landscapes, city scenes, geometrics, still life.
Shearer ARMSTRONG. Alixe Jean Shearer Armstrong. aka Shearer Armstrong, Mrs Armstrong. 1894-1983. Born in Penge, London, she studied at the Slade School from 1912 to 1914, also in Karlsruhe, Germany.... Read full biography
Shearer ARMSTRONG. Alixe Jean Shearer Armstrong. aka Shearer Armstrong, Mrs Armstrong. 1894-1983. Born in Penge, London, she studied at the Slade School from 1912 to 1914, also in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her move to Cornwall in 1921 was to start working (briefly) with Stanhope Forbes. She was... Read full biography
Shearer ARMSTRONG. Alixe Jean Shearer Armstrong. aka Shearer Armstrong, Mrs Armstrong. 1894-1983. Born in Penge, London, she studied at the Slade School from 1912 to 1914, also in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her move to Cornwall in 1921 was to start working (briefly) with Stanhope Forbes. She was influenced by Algernon Mayow Talmage to paint in oil because he thought she was so bad at watercolours. She went on to develop an individual style of still life in the 1930s, and still later, under the... Read full biography
Shearer ARMSTRONG. Alixe Jean Shearer Armstrong. aka Shearer Armstrong, Mrs Armstrong. 1894-1983. Born in Penge, London, she studied at the Slade School from 1912 to 1914, also in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her move to Cornwall in 1921 was to start working (briefly) with Stanhope Forbes. She was influenced by Algernon Mayow Talmage to paint in oil because he thought she was so bad at watercolours. She went on to develop an individual style of still life in the 1930s, and still later, under the influence of Ben Nicholson this developed into an abstract style. She married Henry Armstrong, a civil servant, and moved to Carbis Bay in 1921 whilst maintaining studio initially at 1 Piazza Studios, then at 9 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. In their early... Read full biography
Shearer ARMSTRONG. Alixe Jean Shearer Armstrong. aka Shearer Armstrong, Mrs Armstrong. 1894-1983. Born in Penge, London, she studied at the Slade School from 1912 to 1914, also in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her move to Cornwall in 1921 was to start working (briefly) with Stanhope Forbes. She was influenced by Algernon Mayow Talmage to paint in oil because he thought she was so bad at watercolours. She went on to develop an individual style of still life in the 1930s, and still later, under the influence of Ben Nicholson this developed into an abstract style. She married Henry Armstrong, a civil servant, and moved to Carbis Bay in 1921 whilst maintaining studio initially at 1 Piazza Studios, then at 9 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. In their early days there, she and Henry acquired Rose Cottage, the former home of writers Edith and Havelock Ellis, which was to become their pe... Read full biography
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Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cornwall, England
Art School
- •Slade School of Art, London, Student