Writer
Maureen was educated at Manchester University (1970-74), graduating with a BA in General Arts and an MA in English.
While teaching English in St Albans, she also trained as a painer with Maurice Field who was a long-serving tutor at the Slade School and a member of the Euston Road Group. Maureen's interest in art led to an appointment as Senior Researcher at St John's College, Oxford University (1985). Here, in the Ashmolean Museum, she worked on the sketchbooks of Robert Bevan, a fine painter of the Sussex landscape.
The publication of her research in Apollo (1988) and other specialist journals led to a change of career from teaching to jounalism. She spent several years as Fine Art correspondent for Traditional Homes magazine reviewing exhibitions, profiling artists and writing on historic houses, such as Lamb House in Rye. She also contributed regularly to the Artist and the Antique Collector.
Her book, Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group (David & Charles) was published in 1992, and she was made Honorary Research Fellow of the Slade School, University College, London.
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