Alicia Boyle
| Alicia Boyle | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1908 Bangkok, Thailand |
| Died |
January 1997 Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | abstract marine and landscape painting. |
Alicia Boyle (1908 – January 1997) was an Irish abstract marine and landscape artist.
Life
She was born Alicia Louisa Letitia Boyle to B P Boyle, MIEE, in Bangkok, Siam as it was at the time, on 1 August 1908. Boyle was raised in Limavady in Ireland. Her education was supported by scholarships when in 1929 she went to Byam Shaw School of Art. She studied for 5 years with F. Ernest Jackson.[1][2][3][4]
Work
Boyle moved around Europe working between Ireland, Greece and England before moving to Ireland full-time in 1971. She built a studio in Bantry, County Cork.[1][5]
Boyle held her first solo exhibition in the Peter Jones Gallery in London in 1945. She also exhibited in Belfast and Dublin.[1]
Boyle exhibited in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in the 1950s and in the Oireachtas Exhibition in 1976.[6]
She was a member of the RBA and a winner of the 1962 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Open Painting Competition. Her works are held in numerous public collections including the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and the Ulster Museum, Belfast.[1][5][3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "National Irish Visual Arts Library: Boyle, Alicia". Nival. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
- ↑ The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland: 1989-1999. University of Limerick Press. 1 January 2006.
- 1 2 Appletree Press Ltd; Martyn Anglesea (1 June 2000). The Ireland Yearbook 2001. Appletree Press, Limited.
- ↑ John Harold Hewitt; Mike Catto (June 1977). Art in Ulster: Hewitt, J. Paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture for the last 400 hundred [sic] years to 1957. Blackstaff Press.
- 1 2 "Alicia Boyle - Related Artist Discovery - Alicia Boyle". Askart. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
- ↑ "Death of artist Alicia Boyle". Irishtimes. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
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