Alicia Boyle

Alicia Louisa Letitia Boyle (1908 – January 1997) was an Irish abstract marine and landscape artist.

Alicia Boyle
Born
Alicia Louisa Letitia Boyle

1 August 1908
Bangkok, Thailand
DiedJanuary 1997
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Known forabstract marine and landscape painting.

Life

Boyle was born to B P Boyle, MIEE, in Bangkok, Siam as it was at the time, in 1908. She was raised in Limavady in Ireland and moved to London, England with her family at the age of ten.[1] Her education was supported by scholarships when in 1929 she went to Byam Shaw School of Art. She studied for five years with F. Ernest Jackson.[2][3][4][5]

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.[2][6]

Her artistic influences came from poet Fank O'Connor and Irish folk culture.[7] She was drawn to the natural landscapes of Ireland.[1]

Boyle held her first solo exhibition in the Peter Jones Gallery in London in 1945. She also exhibited in Belfast and Dublin.[2] Boyle exhibited in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in the 1950s and in the Oireachtas Exhibition in 1976.[8]

She was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists 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.[2][6][4]

References
  1. Pyle, Hilary (1990). "The "Daemon Fantasy" in Alicia Boyle's Paintings". Woman's Art Journal. 11 (1): 21–25. doi:10.2307/1358382. JSTOR 1358382.
  2. "National Irish Visual Arts Library: Boyle, Alicia". Nival. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  3. The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland: 1989-1999. University of Limerick Press. 1 January 2006.
  4. Appletree Press Ltd; Martyn Anglesea (1 June 2000). The Ireland Yearbook 2001. Appletree Press, Limited.
  5. 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.
  6. "Alicia Boyle - Related Artist Discovery - Alicia Boyle". Askart. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  7. "Alicia Boyle RBA Biography and Works - Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers". www.rosss.com. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  8. "Death of artist Alicia Boyle". Irishtimes. Retrieved December 19, 2016.

Further reading
  • Pyle, Hilary (1990). "The "Daemon Fantasy" in Alicia Boyle's Paintings". 11 (1). Old City Publishing: 21–25. JSTOR 1358382. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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