Betty Swanwick

Ada Elizabeth Edith Swanwick RA (1915–1989), better known as Betty Swanwick, was an English artist, novelist and art teacher. She was head of illustration at Goldsmiths College and is known for her work for London Transport and an album cover for Genesis.

In 1945 she published the first of her novels The Cross Purposes in 1945. She published, Hoodwinked which featured pencil illustrations. She appears as 'Bertha Swan' in a short story, "The Party", written by her fellow Goldsmiths student Denton Welch (in his posthumous collection A Last Sheaf (1951)).

In 1951 the Regatta and the Rocket restaurants at the Festival of Britain included murals by Ben Nicholson and Swanwick. She would later create another mural for Evelina Children's Hospital in 1960.

Works include The Cross Purposes (1945) Hoodwinked (1957) Beauty and the Burglar (1958)