Marion Elizabeth Adnams was an English painter, printmaker and draughtswoman.
11 Facts About Marion Adnams
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Marion Adnams is notable for her surrealist paintings, in which apparently unconnected objects appear together in unfamiliar, often outdoor, environments.
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Between 1927 and 1930, Marion Adnams travelled to Belgium, France, and Italy, executing woodcuts of the architecture she encountered en route, and exhibiting them to some acclaim at Derby Art Gallery and elsewhere locally with the Derby Women's Art Club.
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Marion Adnams began her career not as a language teacher, but as art mistress at Derby's Central School for Girls before being recommended for a transfer to the newly opened Homelands Grammar School for Girls, by the Derbyshire Education Committee, in October 1937.
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Marion Adnams was appointed senior lecturer at Derby Diocesan Training College in 1948, where she rose to become Head of Art.
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Between 1938 and 1970, Marion Adnams painted the surrealist works for which she is principally known, exhibiting at the British Art Centre in London, alongside Duncan Grant, Augustus John, Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, and Eileen Agar.
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In 1939, Marion Adnams sold her first painting, The Living Tree, to Manchester Art Gallery for inclusion in their Rutherson Collection of Modern Art for Schools.
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Marion Adnams retired in 1960 aged sixty-one, using her time to develop her art in new directions.
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Marion Adnams acquired a second home in France, producing paintings and drawings influenced by the landscape of Provence and elsewhere.
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Marion Adnams died in Derby on Tuesday 24 October 1995, aged ninety-six years old.
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Marion Adnams's funeral was held at Derby Cathedral on Thursday 2 November 1995, before burial at Nottingham Road Cemetery in Derby.