FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Today we are looking at Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1869–1937) was an American artist and designer whose work typified the Arts and Crafts style in southern California . Elizabeth was born in Paris, France, in 1869, to Charles Frederick Eaton and Helen Justice Mitchell. Her father was an artist and designer who worked in such media as metal, glass, and leather. He taught her drawing and the rudiments of other media, which turned out to be almost the only art training she ever received. She attended boarding school in England and Germany in 1885–86. [2] However, both Elizabeth and her mother suffered from health issues, so the family moved first to Nice and then, when Elizabeth was around 17, Burton began her career by exhibiting work at art shows and craft fairs in southern California. As her work developed, the range of media she worked in expanded until it embraced metalwork, stained glass, bookbinding, and tooled leather, as well as print media (woodcuts) and water colour. Many of...

Hi Every one, Have been so busy studying and so I thought I would add another artist while I am thinking what I need to do for assignments in Photography/Imaging. Have to take 28 photos hardly started. So back to the artist for the night, Sybil Craig Sybil Mary Frances Craig (1901-1989), artist , was born on 18 November 1901 at Southgate, London, only child of Australian-born parents Matthew Francis Craig, architect and surveyor, and his wife Winifred Frances, née Major.    The family returned to Melbourne and Sybil was educated at a small St Kilda school. She recalled a childhood in a suburban bohemian household’ frequented by musicians and artists.  The Craigs resided first at Brighton, and after 1914 at Caulfield, in a house designed by Sybil’s father, which remained her home for the rest of her life. In 1920 she began private art tuition with  John Shirlow . She then studied (1924-31) at the National Gallery of Victoria’s school of painting. He was a foundat...