Violet Banks

Violet Banks (3 March 1896 – 1985) was a Scottish artist who painted in oils and watercolours and also decorated pottery.[1]

Biography

Banks was born in Kinghorn in Fife and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art.[2] She lived in Kirkcaldy for a time before returning to Edinburgh in 1928 to take the post of art mistress at St Ornan's School.[3][4] She painted figure subjects and interiors in both oil and watercolour and was highly regarded as a pottery decorator.[4] Banks was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Scottish Society of Women Artists and the Society of Scottish Artists.[2][4][3] Examples of works by Banks are in the national art collection of Scotland.[5]

References

1. Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2 7000 3070 2.
2. Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
3. Paul Harris & Julian Halsby (1990). The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present. Canongate. ISBN 1 84195 150 1.
4. Peter J.M. McEwan (1994). The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 134 1.
5. "Artwoeks Artist: Violet Banks, I Violet". National Galleries Scotland. Retrieved 30 June 2019.