Ada Matilda Shrimpton

Ada Matilda Shrimpton (married name Giles, 1856–1925) was an English watercolour painter and printmaker.

Early life She was born at Old Alresford in 1856, daughter of George Shrimpton and Elizabeth Blake, and educated at Queen’s College, London. For a time she worked as a governess.

Art and printmaking In 1883, she moved to stay with a cousin in Reading, where she studied at the Reading School of Art and gave lectures on artistic anatomy in 1885.

In 1907 she married printmaker William Giles, whom she had met at the Reading School of Art. She and her husband experimented with applying Japanese woodcut techniques to metal relief printing, a technique seen in Ada’s 1911 print 'Almond Blossoms in the Apennines'.