Helen Edwards (artist)

Edwards was born and educated in Eastbourne in Sussex.^[1] Between 1906 and 1908 she studied art under Algernon Talmage at St Ives in Cornwall.^[2] She took further art lessons with H Dawson Barkas during 1909 at Reading in Berkshire.^[2][1] During her artistic career Edwards mainly painted landscapes, working in oils, pastels and watercolours.^[1] She exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists, with the Portrait Society and the Society of Women Artists.^[2][1] In 1933 Edwards was elected a member of the British Watercolour Society.^[2] Edwards lived for a long period at Parkstone in Dorset and regularly exhibited with local art societies throughout Hampshire and Dorset.^[3] Several pastels by Edwards were reproduced by the Medici Society.^[3]