WENDY WOOD (GWENDOLINE EMILY MEACHAM)
DESIGN FOR A FESTIVAL
£300
Auction: 11 November 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
watercolour, signed
Dimensions
51cm x 38cm
Footnote
Provenance; The artist's estate
Note; Wendy Wood, a pseudonym for Gwendoline Meacham, was a fervent Scottish nationalist as well as an artist. One of the founders of the National Party for Scotland, she left it to establish her own organisation, the Scottish Patriots. In 1932 she led a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, pulled down the union flag and put up the lion rampant. In 1951 she was arrested and imprisoned for incitement to riot after addressing football supporters before a Scotland versus England game. Though less known, her artistic work includes drawings and watercolours for children’s books and the comic ‘Little Dots’. She also worked for the BBC as ‘Auntie Gwen’ in a children’s radio program and, in the 1970s, read Scottish stories for the TV programme Jackanory.