Nancy M. Bolton

Nancy Martyr Bolton (also Nancy Parker and Nancy Sawer; 1913–2008) was an Australian artist and teacher, who also worked in New Zealand. She is known for her linocuts, lithographs and illustrations.

Early life and education

Bolton was born in Sydney, Australia in 1913. She received her training at East Sydney Technical College (now National Art School), and worked as a commercial artist. Bolton married academic Robert Parker, and moved to Wellington in 1939 when he was appointed a senior lecturer in political science at Victoria University of Wellington. Kirkcaldie and Stains held an exhibition of Bolton's oils, watercolours and woodcuts (reported under the name Nancy Boulton) in 1941.

Bolton and Parker returned to Canberra in 1945, and then again to Wellington in 1949 when he was appointed full professor. By this time the couple had two children. Her linocut Botanical Gardens, Wellington was reproduced on the cover of Art in New Zealand in 1943. At this time, Bolton was teaching at Canberra Grammar School, and was about to hold an exhibition of paintings titled "Houses and Balconies". She was a book reviewer for The Canberra Times. Bolton died in 2008.