FRANCES CONWAY RWA
Date of Birth: June 20 1931
Place: Bristol, UK
Profession: Painter/Teacher
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Frances Conway taught drawing, painting and life drawing at the Bristol Folk House between 1981 and 1989. She has contributed work every year to the Royal West of England Academy since 1958 and has also shown at the Royal Academy, London, the Bristol Art Gallery, Arnolfini and the Bristol Arts Centre. She has also exhibited work at the Valembreuse Galleries in Paris and Biarritz.
Other artists who have influenced her work while a student at the West of England College of Art were Robert Hurdle, Peter Lanyon, Larry Rivers and Francis Hoyland. Sam Francis, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, Kurt Schwitters and Robert Rauschenberg are all acknowledged as other significant influences.
'Between 1964 and 1968 Frances Conway worked in collage depicting mainly political subject matter. Her paintings also include landscape, street scenes and domestic interiors. Up until 1994 she painted gypsies, children in their environment and people working. Her drawings with conte crayons of landscape and skies are influenced largely by the landscape of Pembrokeshire.
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