BROWNE, Rita

c.1936 - ?

As Rita D. Lee, she married in Co. Durham in 1961, Thomas D. L. Browne and paints under the name of Rita Browne. In 1971, they moved from Stockton-on-Tees to Ipswich and in 1973 to 18 Days Green, Capel St Mary, just outside the town and then to Walsham le Willows in Suffolk. Whilst bringing up the family, working both part-time and later full-time, Rita attended various drawing and painting classes and in 1988 enrolled at the East Bergholt Adult Centre, joining the Michael Norman Drawing and Watercolour Class and the following year invited to continue learning with Michael Norman, as a member of a small group, at his studio at Woolverstone, near Ipswich. Rita uses watercolour, charcoal, and pen & ink in studies of ruined buildings and delicate tree and plant forms and is a member of the Suffolk Art Society. In 2007, Rita also became a member of the Ipswich Art Society where she regularly exhibits also showing with the Society of East Anglian Watercolourists' and in 2014 was an award winner. Now living in Bury St Edmund's she has also exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society; Angel Gallery, Lavenham; Halesworth Gallery, Steeple End, with solo exhibitions at the Frame Workshop & Gallery, Ipswich.                           

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