Mabel Wickham

Who is Mabel Wickham?

Mabel Frances Wickham was an artist . She studied art at the Clapham High School 1919-1923 and went on to teach art at Lord Digby’s School, Sherborne. By the early 1930s she opted to teach part time so as to develop her own painting, for 14 years attending summer landscape painting courses run by Reginald St Clair Marston. Was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society in 1936, and The Royal Academy of Arts in 1938. Was made an associate of the Society of Women Artists in 1936. Member of the Sherborne Art Club. She moved to Weymouth, Dorset where she ran her own summer art courses. There was a retrospective at Chesil Gallery, Chiswell 1988 and an exhibition at Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, who have several of her studio works.

Exhibited: Royal Academy 5 Royal Institute of Painters of Watercolour 10 Society of Women Artists 11

Lived: Sutton Scotney, Hampshire 1930 Sherborne, Dorset 1939