Elizabeth Harrison née Tatchell (1907-2001), was a British artist, educator and writer who spent a large part of her career in Canada.

Biography

Harrison was born in London and studied for seven years at the

Brighton College of Art Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

and later worked in the studios of

Louis Ginnett Louis Ginnett (24 July 1875, in Brighton – 1946, in Brighton) was a British portrait, mural and stained glass painter, who taught at the Brighton School of Art from 1909 to 1939. He was a war artist on the front during the First World War. A g ...

, ROI in Sussex and George Alexander, RBS in Chelsea. She was also employed for four years in the London workshops of Clayton and Bell, a stained glass manufacturer. In 1933, Harrison came to Canada and settled in Kingston, Ontario where both she and her husband, Eric Harrison were employed at

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. From 1939 to 1943, Elizabeth Harrison worked part-time assisting and teaching studio art courses with

André Biéler André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French language, French-s ...

at Queen's University. In June 1941, she undertook the pivotal role as secretary for the first Conference of Canadian Artists held by the

Federation of Canadian Artists The Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA) is an association of artists in Canada founded in Toronto in 1941. The FCA soon had chapters across the country, and was one of the main forces behind formation of the Canada Council in 1957. After this, the ...

, which brought together artists from across the country in Kingston, Ontario. Harrison and Biéler subsequently co-edited the proceedings of the conference. Harrison was also an art consultant to the Kingston Board of Education. Harrison's paintings were exhibited widely in both Canada and Britain and she gave many lectures and addresses across Canada on radio and television. She was also an author, she wrote of her life experiences in Ottawa during the war years and of her life and interests in Kingston. Her most popular book about arts education, ''Self-Expression Through Art'', saw a second edition. Harrison died in October 2001.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Elizabeth 1907 births 2001 deaths 20th-century English women artists 20th-century Canadian women artists Alumni of the University of Brighton Painters from London British emigrants to Canada Canadian women painters English women painters