Frederick, Waveney (1911 – 1999) – Suffolk; a Benton End School painting.

Waveney Frederick studied under Cedric Morris at Benton End in the 1940s. Alongside her career as a painter, she worked as a librarian in Birmingham and became a world authority on Shakespeare. In the 1950s, she founded the Harborne Group, whose aims were freedom from academic constraints and symbolic interpretation of nature. In 1964, she founded the Birmingham Pastel Society. She won many awards through her career and exhibited widely in the UK and America. She was a member of the Birmingham Society of Artists and the Pastel Society, London

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