Gladys Rees was born in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art, where she was awarded a diploma in painting and later taught. She was an exhibitor with the New English Art Club and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour. She later moved to Stamford in Lincolnshire and was a founder of the Welland Valley Art Society.

Glossary

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.

  • Watercolour

    A paint composed of water-soluble pigment, which has been ground in gum, usually gum Arabic. When made opaque with white, watercolour is generally called gouache. Colours are usually applied and spread with brushes and water, but other tools can also be used. Most watercolour painting is done on paper, but other absorbent grounds can also be employed. The term also denotes a work of art executed in this medium.