Meredith Ramsbotham

Meredith Ramsbotham is a painter, glass engraver and illustrator, born in Palestine, educated in Melbourne, Australia, and then at Cranborne Chase, entering Slade School of Fine Art in 1965. Meredith’s main teachers there were Frank Auerbach and Anthony Gross. For a time she took up glass engraving, encouraged by Lawrence Whistler, teaching it at Marlborough College where her husband also taught, and although she had examples bought by public collections, she returned to painting.

Meredith is notable for her still life pictures, in the quiet English tradition of Gwen John and Winifred Nicholson. Another aspect of her talent is the illustration of Pope’s Imitations of English Poets, for Libanus Press in 1987.