Griselda Allan

Griselda Norma Allan (22 November 1905 – 23 August 1987) was an English artist, known for her flower paintings.

Biography Allan was born in Sunderland in the north-east of England, into one of the city's then-prosperous shipbuilding families. She was educated at the Church High School in Sunderland and at the St Felix School at Southwold in Suffolk. In the 1920s Allan studied at the Sunderland School of Art, which is now part of the University of Sunderland. There she painted three flower panels as a contribution to a frieze for the library. Allan left Sunderland to study, first at the Royal College of Art in London and then overseas in France and Germany. After the war, Allan returned to Sunderland, where she continued to painting nature scenes, especially floral subjects for which she later became best known. She married Karl E Buddeberg in 1949.

As well as the Imperial War Museum, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens hold examples of her work.