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Pauline Bewick (4 September 1935 – 28 July 2022) was an English-born Irish artist. Bewick was born in
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,
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on 4 September 1935, and with her mother Alice ('Harry') and sister Hazel, moved many times between England and
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, before finally settling in
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where she lived and worked, near
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. She claimed to be distantly related to actress
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, through her mother. She was a descendant of 19th-century artist
Thomas Bewick Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 17538 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating ch ...
. In her teens, Bewick started studying at the
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in
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, and after graduation, moved to
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. During her time there she illustrated a children's animated television series for the
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, and also produced illustrations for books and magazines. On her return to Dublin she took jobs in singing and acting, and in 1957 opened her first exhibition there. She married her husband Pat in 1963, and gave birth to two daughters, Poppy and Holly.In 2015, her husband Pat had contracted
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. A prolific artist, Bewick painted in oil, sculpted, and worked with cloth, but was most associated with
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s. For the last decade or so she had been working on her ''Yellow Man'' project, a large collection of works featuring a cartoon-like yellow horned figure. In 2006 she donated a collection of 200 works including tapestries, wall hangings, watercolours and sketches to the state, now on permanent display in the Walton Building at the
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, and in the
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Library, Co. Kerry. During Bewick's career she had illustrated several books and published several books of prints of her paintings. In 2015, at 80 years of age, she published her memoir "80: A Memoir". Pauline Bewick died of cancer on 28 July 2022, at the age of 86.


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Pauline Bewick obituary: A prolific artist and free spirit who played a distinctive role in Irish cultural life
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