Griselda Allan

Griselda Norma Allan (22 November 1905 – 23 August 1987) was an English artist, known for her flower paintings.

Griselda Allan
Born	Griselda Norma Allan 22 November 1905[1] Sunderland, England
Died	23 August 1987 (aged 81)[2] Sunderland, England
Nationality	British
Known for	Painting

Biography

Allan was born in Sunderland in the north-east of England, into one of the city's then-prosperous shipbuilding families. She was educated at the Church High School in Sunderland and at the St Felix School at Southwold in Suffolk.^[3] In the 1920s Allan studied at the Sunderland School of Art, which is now part of the University of Sunderland.^[4] There she painted three flower panels as a contribution to a frieze for the library. Allan left Sunderland to study, first at the Royal College of Art in London and then overseas in France and Germany.^[3] From 1935 to 1939, she studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, where she further developed her skills in drawing and painting. During the Second World War Allan taught drawing at the Ruskin and also at the Slade School of Art which had been evacuated to Oxford from central London.^[4] Allan also painted some scenes recording the war work taking place in several shipyards. She submitted these pieces to the War Artists' Advisory Committee who purchased one example for their collection.^[5][6] After the war, Allan returned to Sunderland, where she continued to painting nature scenes, especially floral subjects for which she later became best known.^[4] She married Karl E Buddeberg in 1949.^[3]

As well as the Imperial War Museum, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens hold examples of her work.^[4]