Emmy Dinkel-Keet

Born in The Hague in 1908, Dinkel-Keet and her family moved to England during World War I.[1] Settling in Essex, Dinkel-Keet won a scholarship to the Southend College of Art, where she studied between 1927 and 1930.[2][3] From 1930 to 1933, Dinkel-Keet was a student at the Royal College of Art in London where her tutors included both Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden.[2] After graduating from the Royal College, Dinkel-Keet spent time in Hungary studying peasant art and design, including embroidery.[3] On returning to Britain she took a series of teaching posts, initially with the London County Council, then at Sherborne School for Girls and from 1939 at the College of Art in Great Malvern.[2] After she married the artist Ernest Dinkel, the couple moved to Scotland where Dinkel-Keet took further teaching posts after raising a family.[1] Throughout her career she was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London and, later, with the Royal Scottish Academy.[3] After Ernest Dinkel retired from his post at the Edinburgh College of Art, the couple moved to Bussage near Stroud in Gloucestershire where Dinkel-Keet spent more time on her art.[1] She illustrated a number of books often creating fine illustrations using a paint brush with only a single hair.[1] In 1984 Dinkel-Keet and her husband had a joint exhibition at Stroud and in 1987 Dinkel-Keet was elected a member of the Royal West of England Academy.[2] In 1991, a volume of her paintings and drawings, Dream Children: Collected Works of Emmy Dinkel-Keet was published.[2]