Margaret Nairne Mellis | |
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Born | 21 January 1914 Wukingfu (Wujingfu), Swatow, China |
Died | 17 March 2009 | (aged 95)
Nationality | Scottish |
Education | Edinburgh College of Art |
Known for | Abstract art |
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Margaret Nairne Mellis (22 January 1914 – 17 March 2009) was a Scottish artist, one of the early members and last survivors of the group of modernist artists that gathered in St Ives, in Cornwall, in the 1940s.[1] She and her first husband, Adrian Stokes, played an important role in the rise of St Ives as a magnet for artists. She later married Francis Davison, also an artist, and became a mentor to the young Damien Hirst.