Vivien White

Vivien John (8 March 1915 – 20 May 1994) was a British painter.

Biography Vivien John was born at Alderney Manor in Dorset, the daughter of Dorelia McNeill and the artist Augustus John; she was the youngest of their four children together. After a Bohemian upbringing in Dorset, Vivien John attended the Slade School of Fine Art from 1932 to 1934 and had her first solo exhibition at the Cooling Gallery in London during 1935 before studying with the Euston Road School of artists in the late 1930s. Travelling with her father, she visited Italy, France and then Kingston in Jamaica where a joint exhibition of their paintings was held.