Eileen Aldridge

Eileen W Aldridge (20 July 1916 – 1990) was a British artist and art restorer, who also wrote and illustrated books for children.

Biography Aldridge was born in Teddington near London. Her father was a company director and sometime explorer. She attended the Kingston School of Art between 1933 and 1938 before studying at the Regent Street Polytechnic. During her career Aldridge exhibited works, mostly watercolours, at the Royal Academy, with the New English Art Club and at the Women's International Art Club. She also exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and at the Leger Gallery and at the Leicester Galleries. She first exhibited with the St Ives Society at their 1939 Autumn Exhibition, when her work Minster Lovell was considered one of the outstanding pictures in its section. Later Aldridge lived in London before moving to Burwash in Sussex.