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Isobel Atterbury Heath
(1908 - 1989)
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Isobel Atterbury Heath (1908 - 1989)
Size:
Height – 61cm
Width – 50.8cm
During World War II Heath volunteered to work as an artist for Ministry of Information drawing and painting naval subjects and factory workers in Howton’s munitions and camouflage factory at Ives and the Spitfire Fighter Station at Perranporth. She married an Italian Prisoner of War, Dr Marc Prati – a political correspondent for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, who had been interned in Cornwall.
Isobel Atterbury Heath studied at the Acad mie Colarossi in Paris
and later Leonard Fuller’s St Ives School of Painting in the 1930s.
During WWII, she was commissioned by the Ministry of
Information to paint workers in munitions factories and at a
camouflage factory in St Ives, which gave her the opportunity to
showcase how women were employed outside the perceived female
wartime roles of nurses and care-givers.
She broke away from the STISA to help found the Penwith
Society of Arts in 1949, but resigned in 1950 and rejoined STISA
in 1957, continuing to exhibit with them for the rest of her life.
She also showed with the ROI, the RI and the RSA, and was
included in the 1955 centenary exhibition of the SWA in London.
