Heather Evelyn Standring (1928–2018) was a British illustrator.

Life and career

Standring was born in

Olveston Olveston is a small village and larger parish in South Gloucestershire, England. The parish comprises the villages of Olveston and Tockington, and the hamlets of Old Down, Ingst and Awkley. The civil parish population at the 2011 census wa ...

, Gloucestershire in 1928. She trained at London's

Central School of Arts and Crafts The Central School of Art and Design was a art school, school of fine arts, fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School ...

. She designed book dust jackets for Brian Moore's ''

Judith Hearne ''Judith Hearne'' (later republished as ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'' after the film of that name, based on the novel), was regarded by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore as his first novel. The book was published in 1955 aft ...

'', and

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's ''Solitaire''. And for

Wolf Mankowitz Cyril Wolf Mankowitz (7 November 1924 – 20 May 1998) was an English writer, playwright and screenwriter. He is particularly known for four novels— '' Make Me an Offer'' (1952), '' A Kid for Two Farthings'' (1953), ''My Old Man's a Dustman' ...

's ''Laugh Till You Cry'',

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's ''The Warm Country'' and Ernest Frost's ''The Visitants''. Standring taught illustration part-time for many years at

Maidstone College of Art The Kent Institute of Art & Design (KIAD, often ) was an art school based across three campuses in the county of Kent, in the United Kingdom. It was formed by the amalgamation of three independent colleges: Canterbury College of Art, Maidstone Co ...

. Standring married Patrick M. Smythe in London in 1960. She died in

Herefordshire Herefordshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England, bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh ...

in 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Standring, Heather 1928 births 2018 deaths Academics of the University for the Creative Arts Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design Artists from Gloucestershire English illustrators People from Olveston