Margaret Valerie Jean Nellist ( Woolf; 10 December 1923 – 9 April 2023), better known as Meg Woolf, and later Meg Woolf-Nellist, was a British artist, known for her watercolour paintings and for her sculptures.

Biography

Margaret Valerie Jean Woolf was born at

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in Kent on 10 December 1923, and studied at the

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and at the Beckenham School of Art between 1939 and 1942. After a further period of study at the Brighton School of Art, Woolf taught art at colleges in Britain, including at the Rachel McMillan College of Education, and in Bermuda. Woolf had a solo exhibition in 1948 at the Hove Museum and Art Gallery. Woolf exhibited work at both the

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in London and with the

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, with the

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and at commercial galleries in Britain and overseas. As well as painting with watercolours, Woolf created sculptures in stone, wood and ivory. Woolf died on 9 April 2023, at the age of 99.

References

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