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Jane Heath
Oil on board
1961
1807/96
Jane Tully Heath (b.1913 Cumberland, England d.1995 Pietermaritzburg)
Jane Heath studied at the Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts (1932-37) and at the Royal College of Art, London (1937-41). In 1946 she and her husband moved to South Africa with their children.
From 1949-51 she was a part-time lecturer in painting and drawing at the Port Elizabeth Technical College. From 1953-68 she lectured at the University of Natal and thereafter taught art privately in Pietermaritzburg until her death. Although her training was broad-based, and her later activities ranged from magazine illustrations to murals to calligraphy and set design, her main love was painting. Through her lecturing and private teaching she influenced generations of students in the British modernist tradition.