Catherina Dawson Giles

Catherine Dawson Giles (1878–1955) was a British modernist watercolour painter.

Biography Catherine Dawson Giles was born on 31 July 1878 in Lewisham, south-east London. She attended Goldsmiths, University of London in New Cross in 1900 and later the Royal Academy Schools. She studied with the American painter Max Bohm in Etaples, France, as part of the Etaples art colony. In 1904 she met the English painter and illustrator Jessica Dismorr, a fellow student at Etaples, with whom she became lifelong friends.

During World War I Giles served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She traveled throughout Europe and Northern Africa during the 1920s and 30's on painting trips and also painted many scenes of Etaples.