Meg Woolf
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Margaret Valerie Jean Nellist ({{née}} Woolf; 10 December 1923 – 9 April 2023), better known as Meg Woolf, and later Meg Woolf-Nellist, was a British artist, known for her watercolour paintings and for her sculptures.
Biography
Margaret Valerie Jean Woolf was born at Thanet in Kent on 10 December 1923,{{cite web |title=Woolf, Margaret V J |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl |website=FreeBMD |access-date=16 December 2021}} and studied at the Bromley School of Art and at the Beckenham School of Art between 1939 and 1942.{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn= 0902028553}}
After a further period of study at the Brighton School of Art, Woolf taught art at colleges in Britain, including at the Rachel McMillan College of Education, and in Bermuda.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}
Woolf had a solo exhibition in 1948 at the Hove Museum and Art Gallery. Woolf exhibited work at both the Royal Academy in London and with the Royal Society of British Artists, with the Artists' International Association and at commercial galleries in Britain and overseas. As well as painting with watercolours, Woolf created sculptures in stone, wood and ivory.
Woolf died on 9 April 2023, at the age of 99.{{cite web |title=Margaret Valerie Jean Nellist |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/search-results |website=Probate Search |access-date=30 January 2024}}
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Category:20th-century British sculptors
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:Alumni of Ravensbourne University London