Catherine Dawson Giles

Catherine Dawson Giles was born on July 31, 1878, in Lewisham in south-east London.[1] She attended Goldsmiths, University of London in New Cross in 1900 and later the Royal Academy Schools.[2] She studied with the American painter Max Bohm in Etaples, France, as part of the Etaples art colony. In 1904 she met the English painter and illustrator Jessica Dismorr, a fellow student at Etaples, with whom she became lifelong friends.[3] Dismorr, a member of the Vorticist movement, shared her home in the 1930s and painted her portrait.[4][5]

During World War I Giles served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse.[3] She traveled throughout Europe and Northern Africa during the 1920s and 30’s on painting trips and also painted many scenes of Etaples.[2] Giles exhibited with the New English Art Club in the 1920s and had a one-woman show of watercolours and gouaches at the Claridge Galleries. A Roman Catholic, Giles joined the Guild of Catholic Artists in 1929 and participated in their exhibitions alongside Glyn Philpot and Eric Gill in the 1930s.[3][2]

The art of Dismorr and Giles was shown in a joint exhibition at the Fine Art Society, London, in 2000.[2][5] Notable works by Giles include Village roofs, South of France a pencil and watercolour from 1930.[6]

1 artwork by or after Catherine Dawson Giles at the Art UK site