SINCLAIR, Wendy

1932 - 2024

As Dorothy Wendy Be[a]sley, she was born in the Weymouth district of Dorset in 1932, daughter of Kenneth James Beasley (1909-1954) and his wife Rosamund Kathleen née Bishop (1910-2001), who married at Wareham, Dorset in 1931. Wendy, as she was known, studied at Wimbledon School of Art obtaining her National Diploma in Design (NDD) in sculpture in 1958, gaining a diploma in etching and sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, part of her coursework at Wimbledon in 1953 was on the baptismal fount at St Mark's Church, Wimbledon. Although trained as a sculptor and still does some carved lettering commissions but, using oil, watercolour and pastel, concentrates on painting living plants also producing prints by etching on copper plates. Wendy met her future husband Chris Sinclair at Wimbledon School of Art and they married at Halesworth, Suffolk in 1956 and in 1960 moved to the nearby village of Walberswick. In 1972, Wendy and her husband, commenced exhibiting in a friend's house opposite the Moot Hall in Aldeburgh which was followed by exhibiting at the Assembly House Norwich and then at 'Mary's' restaurant in Walberswick. When their Aldeburgh venue became unavailable, they rented 'The Studio' by the river at Walberswick and mounted an annual June show there for some 20 years. A founder member of the Suffolk Group of Artists and continued to show in the Southwold Art Circle exhibitions and was a member of Walberswick Open Studios. Wendy donated to the Westhall Secret Postcard Auction from Church Lane, Walberswick in 2013, a watercolour 'Pansies in a Border'. Dorothy Wendy Sinclair of Church Lane Walberswick died at St Barnabas care home in Southwold on 2 October 2024, aged 92.

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