Ranging from classical life studies of family and friends to domestic drawings and landscape paintings.
Biddy Picard (1922 – 2019) was born in Derbyshire and studied first at Chesterfield School of Art and subsequently at the Slade. Arriving in Cornwall on a French fishing boat in the late 1940s, she initially lived in Lamorna as part of the post-war art colony, before moving to Mousehole and setting up a pottery with her husband Bill.
Her paintings vary greatly in style, ranging from classical life studies of family and friends to domestic drawings and landscape paintings, through to semi-abstract and abstract work, often inspired by visits to the Isles of Scilly. However, she was most renowned for her distinctive semi-naive harbour scenes in which she evoked the feeling and spirit of West Penwith in timeless compositions.
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Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HE
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