Edrica Huws

Edrica Huws (12 January 1907 – 10 June 1999) was a textile artist. Her father, Thomas Tyrwhitt, was an architect who also worked with watercolors and engravings. She is also the mother of Welsh historian Daniel Huws.

Early life Born in London, and attending St. Pauls Girls' School, she eventually married Welsh draftsman and architect, Richard Huws in 1931, before moving to Talwrn, a village on the Isle of Anglesey, to raise their four children. Although Edrica stopped producing patchwork art to concentrate on raising her children, she collected pieces of fabric over the years, to be used when she could return to her practice.

Edrica was 51 when she began her first large patchwork of a greenhouse which took a year to produce. She eventually was able to complete an average sized patchwork in about a month.

Following the death of her husband she moved to Paris and continued to work into her 70s and 80s. In 1982, she had her first exhibition at the Le Bleu du Ciel gallery in Vélzelay, France. Also in 1982, a bilingual Japanese/English book of her artwork, Edrica Huws: Patchwork Pictures, was published. Edrica's first exhibition at Ginza Shiseido gallery in Tokyo followed a year later. This resulted in Edrica becoming a household name in the respective countries.

Edrica Huws’ family organised an exhibition of her work in Anglesey in 2007, using prints and cards to help raise funds for the National Eisteddfod.

Edrica's total amount of completed artworks was 187, over 60 are in Japan, over 50 are in France, with the rest in the United Kingdom.