Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Born 1912 in Fife, Scotland. 1931-37, studied Edinburgh College of Art. Teachers include William Gilles and John Maxwell. 1937 awarded Andrew Grant Vacation Scholarship to study at the International Exhibition, Paris. Study visit to Paris and South of France in the company of Margaret Mellis. 1940 moves to St Ives and stays with her friend Margaret Mellis who was then married to artist Adrian Stokes. Here she meets the modernists Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo. Barns-Graham was quickly absorbed into their inner circle and found herself in the heart of the avant-garde group of artists whom have made St Ives famous. One of the Crypt Group of young moderns, and a founder member of the breakaway Penwith Society of Arts. Over sixty years she lived and worked in St Ives. Exhibited internationally and her works in Public and Corporate Collections, worldwide.

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