Griselda Norma Allan (22 November 1905 – 23 August 1987) was an English artist, known for her flower paintings.
Allan was born in Sunderland in the north-east of England, into one of the city’s later prosperous shipbuilding families. She was educated at the Church High School in Sunderland and at the St Felix School at Southwold in Suffolk. In the 1920s Allan studied at the Sunderland School of Art, which is now allocation of the University of Sunderland. 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 after that overseas in France and Germany. From 1935 to 1939 she was a student at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. During the Second World War Allan taught drawing at the Ruskin and as a consequence at the Slade School of Art which had been evacuated to Oxford from central London. Allan after that painted some scenes recording the war produce an effect taking place in several shipyards. She submitted these pieces to the War Artists’ Advisory Committee who purchased one example for their collection. After the proceedings Allan returned to Sunderland and nature became the focus of her art. She married Karl E Buddeberg in 1949.
As without difficulty as the Imperial War Museum, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens Keep examples of her work.
5 artworks by or after Griselda Allan at the Art UK site
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