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Presentation: Framed
signed with intials and studio stamp to reverse
The original painted and incised woodblock 9 x 7 ins. (23 x 17.8 cm).
Provenance: The Artists family
Exhibited: The Belgrave Gallery 1974
Literature: ref. mag article

Paterson worked in oil, pastel, watercoulour, lithography and etching, but gained her reputation through her colour woodcuts which she made using a technique which she called "woodtype".
A line drawing would be etched onto a soft wood block to create isolated sections, each of which would be individually coloured with watercolour and printed off onto a sheet of paper attached to the top of the block with drawing pins. The result was a complex, multi-coloured image produced from a single block. Most coloured woodcuts are produced using several blocks, generally one block per colour.
Paterson moved to Paris in the early 1920s and studied with AndrÃ© Lhote from 1923 to 1925. Her prints were exhibited in the Salon d'Auomne from 1923 to1930.
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Presentation: Unmounted
Coloured chalk on light green paper
11 x 15 1/4 in. (27.7 x 38.7 cm)
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Presentation: Framed
Signed with intials
Watercolour
19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (50 x 45 cm.)

In a flat section gilded frame with square outer moulding

It happened on afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. 2 Samuel 1:12:
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Presentation: Framed
signed with intials
Watercolour
15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in. (40 x 55 cm).

Viola Paterson was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Viola was a member of the distinguished Paterson family of artists and she was equally talented as a Colourist in oil, in watercolour and as a lithographer and engraver. As a teenager at a finishing school in London, around 1917-18, she studied with Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Fine Art, from 1919-23 attending the Glasgow School of Art under Maurice Greiffenhagen. In 1924-5 she studied in Paris at L'Academie de la Grand Chaumiere with Lucien Simon Besnard and then with Andre Lhote and thereafter continued to paint in Paris, although she also travelled widely in Europe. At the outbreak of World War II she moved to the south of France, but returned to Britain in 1941. During the war she worked for several years for the Admiralty in Oxford, after the war living in Chelsea, returning to Helensburgh in 1955. the family home, The Long Croft, had been designed by her architect father, and it embodied the last 100 years of Scottish art. A woman of private means and great vitality, Viola Paterson was a keen gardener and expert cook as well as being a prolific artist. She exhibited RA, RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, SSA, Society of Artist Printmakers, Belgrqve and Parkin Galleries. A retrospective was held at The Round House, Havering-atte-Bower, 1983.
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Presentation: Framed
Colour woodcut
13 x 9 3/4 in. (33 x 24.8 cm).
Paterson worked in oil, pastel, watercoulour, lithography and etching, but gained her reputation through her colour woodcuts which she made using a technique which she called "woodtype".
A line drawing would be etched onto a soft wood block to create isolated sections, each of which would be individually coloured with watercolour and printed off onto a sheet of paper attached to the top of the block with drawing pins. The result was a complex, multi-coloured image produced from a single block. Most coloured woodcuts are produced using several blocks, generally one block per colour.
Paterson moved to Paris in the early 1920s and studied with Andre Lhote from 1923 to 1925. Her prints were exhibited in the Salon d'Auomne from 1923 to1930.
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Presentation: Passe-partout
Signed with monogram
Gouache on paper
8 x 10 3/4 in. (20 x 27.3 cm)
Viola Paterson was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Viola was a member of the distinguished Paterson family of artists and she was equally talented as a Colourist in oil, in watercolour and as a lithographer and engraver. As a teenager at a finishing school in London, around 1917-18, she studied with Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Fine Art, from 1919-23 attending the Glasgow School of Art under Maurice Greiffenhagen. In 1924-5 she studied in Paris at L'Academie de la Grand Chaumiere with Lucien Simon Besnard and then with Andre Lhote and thereafter continued to paint in Paris, although she also travelled widely in Europe. At the outbreak of World War II she moved to the south of France, but returned to Britain in 1941. During the war she worked for several years for the Admiralty in Oxford, after the war living in Chelsea, returning to Helensburgh in 1955. the family home, The Long Croft, had been designed by her architect father, and it embodied the last 100 years of Scottish art. A woman of private means and great vitality, Viola Paterson was a keen gardener and expert cook as well as being a prolific artist. She exhibited RA, RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, SSA, Society of Artist Printmakers, Belgrqve and Parkin Galleries. A retrospective was held at The Round House, Havering-atte-Bower, 1983.

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Viola Paterson 1899 - 1981

Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Viola was a member of the distinguished Paterson family of artists and she was equally talented as a Colourist in oil, in watercolour and as a lithographer and engraver. As a teenager at a finishing school in London, around 1917-18, she studied with Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Fine Art, from 1919-23 attending the Glasgow School of Art under Maurice Greiffenhagen. In 1924-5 she studied in Paris at L'Academie de la Grand Chaumiere with Lucien Simon Besnard and then with Andre Lhote and thereafter continued to paint in Paris, although she also travelled widely in Europe. At the outbreak of World War II she moved to the south of France, but returned to Britain in 1941. During the war she worked for several years for the Admiralty in Oxford, after the war living in Chelsea, returning to Helensburgh in 1955. the family home, The Long Croft, had been designed by her architect father, and it embodied the last 100 years of Scottish art. A woman of private means and great vitality, Viola Paterson was a keen gardener and expert cook as well as being a prolific artist. She exhibited RA, RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, SSA, Society of Artist Printmakers, Belgrqve and Parkin Galleries. A retrospective was held at The Round House, Havering-atte-Bower, 1983.