Eileen Constance Greenwood RE (26 May 1915 – 23 June 2008) was an English artist, printmaker, and art teacher, specializing in

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other type ...

and

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. She is also rarely known by her maiden name of Eileen Messenger. The daughter of Harold Messenger and Nellie Spackman, who had married the year before, she was born in London in 1915.David Buckman, ''Artists in Britain Since 1945'', Vol. 1, A to L (Art Dictionaries Ltd, 2006, ) She was educated at the Camden School for Girls and studied at the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...

from 1934 to 1937, the

Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art (), commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. The art collection is known particularly for ...

, and

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. In 1935 she became an Associate in Design of the Royal College of Art. In 1939 she married the artist Ernest Greenwood (1913–2009), later a long-serving president of the

Royal Watercolour Society The Royal Watercolour Society is a British institution of painters working in watercolours. The Society is a centre of excellence for water-based media on paper, which allows for a diverse and interesting range of approaches to the medium of wa ...

, and they had one daughter,"Greenwood, Eileen Constance ARCA" in ''Who's Who in Art'', Volume 32 (Bernard Dolman, Art Trade Press, 2006), p. 398 Dorelia, born at

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in 1943. Greenwood was the founding Principal of the Sittingbourne College of Education, which was the first day-college for student teachers in Kent and was opened by Princess Marina. Greenwood exhibited works at the

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, at the

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), initially called the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, is one of the societies in the Federation of British Artists, based in the Mall Galleries in London. History In 1831, the ...

and with both the

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and the

London Group The London Group is a society based in London, England, created to offer additional exhibiting opportunities to artists besides the Royal Academy of Arts. Formed in 1913, it is one of the oldest artist-led organisations in the world. It was form ...

, and she had many solo exhibitions around Britain.''Arts Review'', Vol. 39 (Richard Gainsborough Periodicals, 1987), p. 190 In 1953, '' The Studio'' reported on an exhibition in Kensington that "Eileen Greenwood's excursions in flowers and still life have extracted the exotic quality of Austrian flora with authority".''The Studio'', Vol. 146 (Studio Trust, 1953), p. 30 In 1975 she was elected a

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of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. Greenwood's work is represented in collections in Europe, the US, and Australia.

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