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A painter of landscapes in oils and an etcher, Marjorie Sherlock was born in Wanstead in 1897. She studied at the Slade School under Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman and at the Westminster School of Art. She continued her studies at the Royal College of Art (1928) and at the Academie L'Hote in Paris 1938 where she studied under Andre L'Hote and Segonzac. She exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1916, at the New English Art Club, the London Society, the Society of Graphic Art, the Goupil Gallery, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and abroad. In 1926 she studied etching at the Royal College of Art under Malcolm Osborne. She was a close friend of Orovida Pissaro. Her etching was precise and linear, carefully building form and tone from hatched lines, and a similar measured approach will be seen in her ordered landscapes. She produced four series of engravings under the titles of English Etchings, Egyptian Etchings, German Etchings and Indian Etchings. She lived mainly in Cambridge and later near Axminster, Devon. A posthumous retrospective was held in 1973. |
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