Cicely Hey

Cicely Hey
Portrait of Cicely Hey by Walter Sickert
Born 1896
Faringdon, Oxfordshire
Died 1980 (aged 83–84)
Nationality British
Education
Known for Painting, sculpture
Spouse(s) Robert R. Tatlock

Cicely Hey (1896-1980) was a British artist known as a painter, sculptor and model-maker. Although born in England she spent much of her career in Wales.

Biography

Hey was born in Faringdon in Oxfordshire.[1] She first studied art at the Brussels School of Art and then in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Slade School of Art.[2] As well as working as a painter and draughtsman she also modelled for the artist Walter Sickert who painted her portrait several times in the early 1920s.[2] The two had met at a lecture by Roger Fry in 1922.[3] Hey was married to Robert R. Tatlock, an art critic and long-time editor of the Burlington Magazine.[3][4] Hey began to exhibit at group shows with the London Group from 1928, with the Women's International Art Club, the New English Art Club and the Society of Graphic Artists.[3][4] Her first solo show was in 1933 at the Lefevre Gallery in London.[3]

In 1941 Hey moved to Wales and settled in Llysfaen in north Wales and began to focus on her model making. She would work in terracotta, wire and paper mache to create miniature period figures often with historically accurate costumes.[2] Examples of her work featured in the Arts Council of Wales 1955 touring exhibition of contemporary Welsh painting and sculpture and she exhibited with the North Wales Group from 1956 to 1968.[2] Between 1957 and 1961 Hey was a regular exhibitor at the art exhibition at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and in 1964 had a solo exhibition, Period Figures, at the Geffrye Museum in London and which also toured.[2] The Llanover Hall arts centre in Cardiff hosted an exhibition of her drawings in 2006 and both the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, the Contemporary Arts Society for Wales and the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading hold pieces by her.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Peter W Jones & Isabel Hitchman (2015). Post War to Post Modern: A Dictionary of Artists in Wales. Gomer Press. ISBN 978 184851 8766.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
  4. 1 2 Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
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