Yasmin David (1939–2009) was a British landscape painter. She was the daughter of
Lorna Garman Wishart and
Laurie Lee
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.
His most notable work is the autobiographical trilog ...
.
Many of her works were only exhibited posthumously.
She lived in
Luscombe in
Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon i ...
for most of her life, Sicily and Cape Town , until her death in 2009.
Her half-brother
Michael Wishart
John Michael Wishart (June 12, 1928 – June 29, 1996) known as Michael Wishart, was an English figurative painter who spent most of his career in France, America and North Africa. A friend of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, he published a memoir ...
was also a painter.
She had three children .
References
British painters
British women painters
20th-century English painters
2009 deaths
1939 births
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