Isobel Atterbury Heath (1909–1989) Isobel studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris before continuing her training at Leonard Fuller’s St Ives School of Painting. During the Second World War, she was commissioned by the Ministry of Information to depict workers in munitions factories and a camouflage factory based in St Ives. A committed member of the St Ives Society of Artists (STISA), Heath exhibited regularly with the group.

In 1949, she became one of the founding members of the Penwith Society of Arts—a breakaway collective of nineteen artists that included Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. She also exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI), the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), and the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA). In 1955, her work was featured in the centenary exhibition of the Society of Women Artists (SWA) in London. Later, in 1962, she curated the London exhibition Cornish Experiment.

In her search for Expressionism of the local landscape, Isobel would drive into the moors sketching, painting and sleeping for days at a time, working at night with the aid of a tin miner’s hat and lamp.

I have acquired a body of work by Isobel Atterbury Heath, to include abstract works, landscapes and other paintings on paper. This listing is for a single artwork as detailed below.

Watercolour wove paper, unsigned. Reasonable condition, with age toning, light foxing throughout really only visible mainly to the sky from the front , and other marks/blemishes. Unframed.

Paper measures 37cm x 35.3cm.