DALBY, Claire

1944 - ?

As Joy Claire Allison Longbotham she was born at St Andrews, Scotland on 20 November 1944, daughter of Charles Norman Longbotham, and his wife Eleanor Friedel Nairn-Allison (c1910-1972), youngest daughter of Mrs. Eleanor Nametta Rittershaus, Charles and Eleanor married at St Andrew's Church, Bath on 9 March 1940. Joy studied at the Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls at Acton in West London 1955-1963 and at City and Guilds of London Art School 1964-1967, specialising in engraving and calligraphy and the techniques of wood engraving from Joan Hassall. In 1966 she was awarded a David Murray landscape studentship and spent time at the Flatford Mill Centre in Suffolk, where she met botanist Dunkery Hugh Dalby (1930-2013) whom she married at Ealing in 1967. In 1966 she had her first picture exhibited at the Royal Academy in London which was followed by regular exhibits under married name of Claire Dalby. Together with Jenny Jowett (1936-2019) they offered instructions in wood engraving to Alison Jones. Dalby exhibited at Clarges Gallery, 158 Walton Street, London in 1968 with solo exhibitions from 1975 in several group shows including those of the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Dalby provided botanical illustrations for several of books and created wallcharts, illustrating over 500 species of lichens for the Natural History Museum 'Lichens on Rocky Seashores', and in 1989 a collection of her botanical illustrations was published as Claire Dalby's Picture Book. Dalby was awarded the Linnean Society their Jill Smythies Award for outstanding botanical illustrations in 1994 and the following year she was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Horticultural Society.

Royal Academy Exhibits
as Joy C A Longbotham, Northcroft Studio, Northcroft Road, West London
1966 967 Kentish Hedgerow - pen
as Mrs Claire Dalby, 108 Gordon Road, Camberley, Surrey
1968 865 Spiral Staircase - etching and aquatint
         967 Stave Church, Lorn - wood engraving
1972 1047 Old Lead Mine, Snailhead - wood engraving
1976 1019 Old Boat Sor Flatanger - wood engraving
1978 819 Ginge Brook Pottery - wood engraving
         1057 Refractory Bridge Works, Ruabon - wood engraving
         1075 Weybridge Church - wood engraving
1979 256 The Old Chair - wood engraving
1982 835 Brick Kilns, Ruabon - wood engraving
         880 Snailbeach Leadmine - wood engraving
1983 989 Penman Priory - wood engraving
         1003 From the Grove, Nettlecombe - wood engraving
1984 1643 Cottage at West Dean - wood engraving
         1741 Heylor, Shetland - wood engraving
1985 1637 Durham Cathedral - wood engraving
         1688 Fishing Huts at Kvaloyseter - wood engraving
         1700 Old Croft above Hillswick - wood engraving
1988 1176 The Stables at Nettlecombe - wood engraving
         1179 Cottage at Orne - wood engraving
         1180 The Gazebo, West Dean - wood engraving
1990 233 Lerwick: The Lodberries - wood engraving
1993 234 Dunnottar Castel - wood engraving
1994 275 Storm Beach - wood engraving
         276 The Allotment - wood engraving
1995 837 In a Gloucestershire Garden - wood engraving
1996 279 Byre at Fraddabister - wood engraving
1997 116 The Scarecrow - wood engraving
from 2 West Park, Stanley, Perthshire
2001 761 Rosemary - wood engraving
2002 190 King Penguins - wood engraving
         254 Drummond Castle - wood engraving

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Works by This Artist