Alicia Louisa Letitia Boyle RBA, RHA, RUA was an Irish abstract marine and landscape artist.
34 Facts About Alicia Boyle
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Alicia Boyle was born on 1 August 1908 to Brudenell P Boyle, an engineer, and his wife Birney in Bangkok, Siam.
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Alicia Boyle was raised in Limavady in Northern Ireland and moved to London, England with her family at the age of ten.
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Alicia Boyle's parents encouraged her to paint around Limavady and Magilligan.
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Alicia Boyle's mother introduced her to the work of playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Sean O'Casey, and George Bernard Shaw.
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When her Mother died and her Father remarried, Boyle felt unable to remain in the family home and left to live in a bedsit.
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At the age of seventeen Alicia Boyle enrolled on a teacher-training course at Clapham Art Training School where she studied for four years.
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From 1929 until 1934 Alicia Boyle attended Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, where she studied drawing, painting and mural decoration under Ernest Jackson.
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Alicia Boyle was a prizewinning student who won two scholarships whilst at Byam.
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Alicia Boyle became interested in calligraphy and prepared her own quills, a practice that she was to continue throughout her life.
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In 1932 Alicia Boyle's painting Lot's Wife was displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts annual show.
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Alicia Boyle won a commission to produce a mural for the Nurse's Home at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children two years later, which is no longer extant.
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In 1939 Alicia Boyle travelled to Mykonos in the Aegean Islands as an invited artist at the School of Fine Art.
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Alicia Boyle was appointed as part-time teacher at Northampton High School for Girls in January 1940.
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Alicia Boyle was later engaged as a visiting lecturer at West Sussex College and Farnham School of Art.
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Alicia Boyle began exhibiting at the Leicester Galleries in London in 1944.
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Alicia Boyle was to show annually in their Artists of Fame and Promise exhibition for more than a quarter of a century.
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Alicia Boyle held her first solo exhibition in the Peter Jones Gallery in London in 1945, which afforded her the luxury of reducing her teaching hours.
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Alicia Boyle became a member of the Midland Regional Group of Artists and Designers with whom she exhibited in the autumn of 1948 and in 1949 Alicia Boyle debuted in Ulster with a solo exhibition at the CEMA gallery in the spring of 1950, where she displayed The red, red Cock, shown to critical acclaim at the Leger Galleries in the previous year.
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Alicia Boyle showed once more with CEMA in 1952 and , at the Belfast Municipal Gallery in 1959.
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The Scottish Committee of the Arts Council welcomed an exhibition of Contemporary Ulster Painting to Edinburgh where Alicia Boyle showed alongside George Campbell, Gerard Dillon, Paul Nietsche and Nevill Johnson.
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Alicia Boyle presented an exhibition of watercolours at the Walker's Gallery, London in 1958.
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Alicia Boyle was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1958.
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Between 1958 and 1962 Alicia Boyle showed a total of twenty-six works with the Royal Society of British Artists.
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Alicia Boyle showed two watercolours The Sea's Edge, Connemara and The Sorrel Field, Rossdougan at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1952, one oil, November Flowers in 1957, and a further watercolour in 1960 entitled Slatty Strand, towards Sherkin.
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Alicia Boyle exhibited in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in the 1950s and in the Oireachtas Exhibition in 1976.
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Alicia Boyle was a winner of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's first Open Painting Competition in 1962.
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Alicia Boyle moved to Ireland full-time in 1971 where she built a studio in Bantry, County Cork, before later settling in Dublin.
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In 1973 Alicia Boyle held a joint exhibition of oils in New York with Frank Eggington.
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Alicia Boyle presented a solo exhibition at the Tom Caldwell Gallery in Belfast in the spring of 1978, having previously shown at Caldwell's Dublin gallery in 1975.
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Between 1983 and 1989 Alicia Boyle had five solo exhibitions and three major retrospectives.
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Alicia Boyle was inaugurated into the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland in 1995, alongside twelve others including Joseph O'Connor, Sidney Smith, Anna Cheyne and George Russell.
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Alicia Boyle died in Dublin, Ireland on 11 January 1997.
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Alicia Boyle's works are held in numerous public collections including Paintings in Hospitals, Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Crawford Art Gallery, Northern Ireland Civil Service, Ulster Museum, Nottingham Castle Museum, National Gallery of Ireland and the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland.