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Artist and teacher, born in Fleet, Hampshire, who said that “to me painting is learning to see.” Her parents encouraged her talent and from 1919–23 she studied in art department of Clapham High School, including a year’s teacher training, then taught art at Lord Digby’s School, Sherborne. By the early 1930s opted to teach part-time to develop her own painting, for 14 years attending summer landscape painting courses run by St Clair Marston. Was elected to SWA in 1936, RI in 1938, showed regularly at RA and with local groups such as Sherborne Art Club. Sherborne Town Council commissioned work. On retiring in 1953 Wickham moved to Weymouth, Dorset. She ran her own summer courses and lectured for Workers’ Educational Association, Bristol Extra-Mural Department and Portland Bill Observatory; she travelled widely, including the Near East; and attended John Nash’s botanical illustration course at Flatford Mill Field Study Centre.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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