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Last Name Walsh

Given Name Wendy Felicité °

alt. Names W. F. W. ; Wendy Walsh ;

Marriage army major John Mainwaring Walsh (1920 c. -2007) in 1941

Children artist Lesley Fennell (1945 c.) ; Anna and Michael

Year born 1915 in Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria

Year died 2014

Place of death

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education studied privately under the animal painters Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935) and Arminell Morshead (1889-1966)

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for 15 books on Ireland's flora and fauna ; W. W. was commissioned to design floral stamps, starting her career as a professional artist at the age of 60. The Irish Florilegium – Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland (1983, awarded a bronze medal for the 'Most beautiful Book in the World' at the Leipzig Book Fair) ; Alpine Society Gold Award in 1991 and 1993 ;

Patronage Royal Horticultural Society ; doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin in 1997

Collaborators Northern Irish botanist Ernest Charles Nelson (1951) ;

Techniques botanical drawing and pencil on paper

Sample(s) https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/drawn-nature-irish-botanical-art/wendy-walsh-1915-2014

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_F._Walsh ; https://wendyfwalsh.com/ ;

Published sources Wilkinson, Nick & Charles Ernest Nelson (eds.): Wendy Walsh. A lifetime of painting. A memoir from notes made by Wendy Walsh and in conversation with Nick Wilkinson. Also a suite of forty-four botanical plates with commentary by E. Charles Nelson (Dublin: Strawberry Tree, 20007) ;

other Further Places of Activity: Japan (where she studied Chinese ink techniques) and the United States of America (Washington DC).

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