Hestor Frood
1882 - 1971
Frood was born in New Zealand, arriving in England as a child of seven, going on to study at Académie Colarossi in Paris. In 1906 she met the artist David Young Cameron in Scotland, who taught her etching. Her mother, Mary Frood was heavily involved in the suffrage cause, and in 1913 Hester and her sister Constance carried the Topsham banner on the NUWSS Great Pilgrimage. Frood exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy and had her first solo show at Colnaghi in 1925. In 1927 Frood married the poet Frank Gwynne-Evans and they moved to Topsham, Devon. A watercolourist as well as a printmaker, Frood's work is in the collections of the V&A, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the British Museum.
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