ELIZABETH SORRELL, RWS (1916-1991)
Elizabeth Sorrell (née Tanner) was born at New Skelton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire on 12 October 1916. She studied at Eastbourne School of Art (1934-38) and then at the Royal College of Art, where she learned mural painting from Professor Tristram and also received encouragement from Paul Nash (1938-42). In 1947, she married Alan Sorrell, another teacher at the RCA, and together they settled at Thundersley in Essex; their son, the artist Richard Sorrell, was born in the following year. Essentially a watercolourist of landscape and still life, she was elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (ARWs 1958, Rws 1966). She also exhibited at the New English Art Club, the Royal Academy and many other venues, and was given a joint retrospective with her husband at Chelmsford Art Gallery (1975).
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