Audrey Pilkington (1922-2015)

Audrey Pilkington was born in 1922 at Heaning in the Forest of Bowland. She studied at The Slade School of Art. She also drew for Vogue and illustrated ‘After Bath’ by Vaughan Wilkins for Cape – the original pen and ink drawings still survive in a hand made and painted box that she treasured for her lifetime.

Her husband Patrick was offered Head of the Art Department at King Alfred School Plon in Germany from 1947-54 so the family moved there for the period of his employment.

On her return to the UK Audrey Pilkington settled in Suffolk and was a member of the Colchester Art Society and exhibited in Essex, Suffolk and London (including the Redfern Gallery and Heals). In 1961, she and Patrick bought Clock House, Bruisyard, where from 1964 they converted areas into art studios for local and residential users.
Audrey moved to Resolven in West Glamorgan in 1988. Her work has been shown at Swansea University Gallery. She also produced a particularly fine series of Scottish landscapes in pastel, which were exhibited at Neath Museum.

Audrey Pilkington died in 2015 in Wales.