Juliet de Gaye

Juliet studied painting with Reginald Napier in Yorkshire in the 1950s, and at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art with Sir William Coldstream and Claude Rogers, who was her tutor.  It was also at the Slade that she first learned the process of etching with John Buckland-Wright.

Her work was heavily influenced by where she grew up in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Many of her paintings and etchings feature the hilly woolen districts and the dark stone buildings around Huddersfield and the characters that lived there.

She is best known for her intricate and detailed etchings and her allegorical paintings. You can study them for hours and discover something new in them everyday.

Juliet exhibited widely and regularly in England and abroad, and her work is included in many private collections.  In 1979 she was awarded the “Lion d’Or” for etching at the Triennale Mondiale in Lyons.

Juliet de Gaye passed away peacefully at the age of 82 on December 9 2012.