BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Evelyn Dunbar

Evelyn Dunbar was born in 1906 – and it was while she was at school in Rochester that her great gift as an artist was first discovered. As a pupil, she won many awards from the Royal Drawing Society, several of which had never been won by anyone so young. In 1929, she began her training at the Royal College of Art and during the Second World War she became the only woman to be employed on a salaried basis to record female activities on the Home Front, particularly those of the Women’s Land Army.

This year marks the centenary of Dunbar’s birth and Felicity Finch meets Gill Clarke, Director of the Centre for Biography and Education at the University of Southampton, who has published a book celebrating her life. She is also the curator of an exhibition of Dunbar’s work currently showing at the St.Barbe Museum and Art Gallery at Lymington, Hampshire.

‘Evelyn Dunbar: War and Country’ by Dr. Gillian Clarke is published by Sansom & Company, ISBN 1904537 56 1.

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