Deirdre Borlase

Deirdre Borlase (1925–2018) was a British painter and printmaker.

Biography Borlase was born at Dulwich in London and grew up Margate, where her father was a plumber. She studied at the Bromley School of Art between 1940 and 1944 and then at the Royal College of Art in London for a further two years. After graduating she taught at the Harrow School of Art for two years and then at the Kingston School of Art until 1950. After a career break, Borlase returned to art in 1967, creating landscapes of Venice and, later, of Carperby in north Yorkshire where the family had a cottage from 1961. The exhibition was curated by one of her three children, the artist Bob and Roberta Smith.