Stephanie Godwin

Stephanie Godwin (10 June 19177 January 2006), also known as Stephani Godwin, Stephanie Scott-Godwin and Stephanie Scott-Snell, was an English painter and illustrator. She was born Stephanie Mary Allfree in Venice and grew up in London, the daughter of Geoffrey Stephen Allfree (1889–1918), an artist who was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and an official war artist. Her father drowned when she was a year old in St Ives Bay while on active service with the Royal Navy in September 1918.

She studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art, Their younger son Joscelyn Godwin was born there in 1945.

After the war the couple changed their surname to Godwin, the name of Stephanie's mother. They emigrated to the US in 1948, settling at the artists colony in Woodstock, New York. A joint exhibition at the Demotte Galleries in New York two years later proved to be a failure. To make a living they began producing illustrations for children's books. Edward had previously worked as a book illustrator.

They separated in 1954. Stephanie continued to paint, mostly landscapes. Aged only 51 in the 'summer of love', she "embraced hippydom with some enthusiasm".

Joscelyn Godwin edited and published a selection of Stephanie and Edward's writings, letters and diaries in 2015. Her painting Tondo: The Cherry Ribbon was sold at Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers in 2024.