Maureen Patey Eyre Proudman

Maureen Patey (Eyre) Proudman (18 May 1906 – 11 November 1988) was an English designer and painter.

Life Eyre studied fine art at the British Academy school in Rome and at the Design School at the Royal College of Art under Ernest Tristram and Reco Capey from 1925 to 1928.

She married Philip Proudman in Singapore in March 1932. They had two sons.

In 1938, Maureen and Philip Proudman commissioned a pioneering international style house with fully glazed elevations and balconies overlooking Richmond Park at 26 Bessborough Road in Roehampton by Colin Lucas of Connell, Ward and Lucas. The home was profiled in the AA Journal in November 1956.

Career

Design With Lettice D’Oyly Walters and Michael Huth Walters, Eyre established the Swan Press in Chelsea. The press created limited editions of previously published material. Margaret Roake writes that the press emphasized typography and editions were “hand pressed by H. Gage-Cole on handmade paper, bound by hand, examples of fine craftsmanship.”

In 1928, Eyre co-established the design studio Eyre and Martin in London. She executed commercial commissions in interior design, murals, and pottery, as well as carpet and textile designs for leading textile manufacturers. In 1930, Eyre and Martin were commissioned by Reco Capey to create several large murals for the front of the new Yardley shop on Bond Street in London.