1. Ann Thetis Blacker was an English painter and singer.
10 Facts About Thetis Blacker
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Thetis Blacker was noted for her richly coloured pictures, especially using the batik wax-resist fabric dyeing process.
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Thetis Blacker was the daughter of Carlos Paton Blacker, a psychiatrist, and granddaughter of Carlos Blacker, a friend of Oscar Wilde.
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Thetis Blacker appeared in the chorus at Glyndebourne opera in the 1950s and sang the role of "Mother Goose" in The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky.
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When her singing career was cut short by vocal issues in the mid-1950s, Thetis Blacker turned her focus to painting.
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Thetis Blacker studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London and was taught by the wife of the artist Leonard Campbell Taylor, Brenda Moore.
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In 1970, Thetis Blacker became a Churchill Fellow and visited India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
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Thetis Blacker worked at the Batik Research Institute in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Thetis Blacker went on to visit Bali and Peru, influencing her style of brightly coloured symbolic pictures using batik dyed fabric.
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Thetis Blacker's dealer was Henry Dyson and she died in Bramley, Surrey in 2006.