Eardley, Joan Kathleen Harding (18 May 1921 to 16 Aug 1963).

Joan Eardley attended Blackheath School of Art for two terms in 1938 before transferring to Goldsmith’s. She kept in contact with one of her fellow classmates, Francis Stephens (one of the founders of Faith Craft one of the chief designers of religious imagery) later writing to him about her time in Blackheath. Eardley later attended Glasgow School of Art and became known for her depictions of the children in the Glasgow tenements and the coastline of Catterline in Aberdeenshire.

Attended Glasgow School of Art in 1940. Many works in Scottish collections as she is regarded as a Scottish painter despite being born in England.

Work in Tate Collection http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joan-eardley-1049

BBC Your Paintings http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/joan-kathleen-harding-eardley

Eardley Editions set up by the family –
http://eardleyeditions.com/