Paule vezelay biography

          Painter, sculptor, etcher and book illustrator..

          Paule Vézelay (née Marjorie Watson-Williams; –) was a British painter, known for her abstract art.

        1. Paule Vézelay (née Marjorie Watson-Williams; –) was a British painter, known for her abstract art.
        2. Paule Vézelay (née Marjorie Watson-Williams) studied at Bristol School of Art, London School of Art and Chelsea Polytechnic.
        3. Painter, sculptor, etcher and book illustrator.
        4. Paule Vézelay was born in England in , but by the s she had become an active member of the Parisian avant-garde after moving to France and adopting.
        5. Paule Vézelay was a British painter, known for her abstract art.

          6. Paule Vézelay

          British painter (1892–1984)

          Paule Vézelay (née Marjorie Watson-Williams; 1892–1984) was a British painter, known for her abstract art.[1][2][3][4]

          Early life and education

          Vézelay was born Marjorie Watson-Williams in Bristol, a daughter of a pioneering surgeon, Patrick Watson-Williams (1863–1938).[5] Before the First World War she trained for a short period at the Slade School of Fine Art and then at the London School of Art.

          She also studied at Bristol School of Art and Chelsea Polytechnic.[6]

          Life and work

          Vézelay first gained recognition as a figurative painter, with her first London show in 1921.

          She was invited to join the London Group in 1922.

          Vézelay moved to France in 1926 and changed her name to Paule Vézelay possibly to identify herself with the School of Paris, although she is recorded as saying it was “for purely aesthetic reasons”.[6] In 1928 she abandoned figurati