Gwyneth Johnstone was an English painter who worked in oil and created landscapes containing individuals in modern landscapes starting from the 1950s.
10 Facts About Gwyneth Johnstone
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Gwyneth Johnstone was born on 18 June 1915 in the Norfolk village of Coltishall; she always concealed her actual birth date.
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Gwyneth Johnstone's mother gave her daughter the allusive surname of Johnstone from a tutor at Alderney and raised her with a distance relationship with her father in Norwich and London.
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Gwyneth Johnstone was resented by her half-sisters and was ridiculed by society for being an illegitimate child.
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Gwyneth Johnstone was educated at the Saint Felix School in Southwold, where she saw the paintings of Christopher Wood and other modernists of the era, which were purchased by Lucy Mary Silcox, the school's headteacher.
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From March 1933 to June 1938, Gwyneth Johnstone enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she struggled early on.
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Gwyneth Johnstone was unmarried but had a relationship with a pianist, Francis Davies, from the 1940s until his death in 2008.
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Gwyneth Johnstone owned homes in southernmost France and later the hills of Benidorm.
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Gwyneth Johnstone's only living half-brother is television director Tristan de Vere Cole.
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Gwyneth Johnstone used oil in her paintings, and focused on themes containing "shepherds, fishermen and lovers at ease in wild Mediterranean landscapes", and called her work, "romantic modern landscapes".