Maureen Patey Eyre Proudman

Maureen Patey (Eyre) Proudman (18 May 1906 – 11 November 1988)[1] was an English designer and painter.

Life

Eyre studied fine art at the British Academy school in Rome and at the Design School at the Royal College of Art under Ernest Tristram and Reco Capey from 1925 to 1928.[2] Eyre specialized in mural and decorative painting, textile design, printing and wood engraving.[3]

She married Philip Proudman in Singapore in March 1932.[4] They had two sons.

In 1938, Maureen and Philip Proudman commissioned a pioneering international style house with fully glazed elevations and balconies overlooking Richmond Park at 26 Bessborough Road in Roehampton by Colin Lucas of Connell, Ward and Lucas.[5] The home was profiled in the AA Journal in November 1956.[6]

She married Ernest W. Lovely in October 1974 and thereafter lived in Winchester, England.[7]

Career

Design

With Lettice D’Oyly Walters and Michael Huth Walters, Eyre established the Swan Press in Chelsea. The press created limited editions of previously published material. Margaret Roake writes that the press emphasized typography and editions were “hand pressed by H. Gage-Cole on handmade paper, bound by hand, examples of fine craftsmanship.”[8]

In 1928, Eyre co-established the design studio Eyre and Martin in London. She executed commercial commissions in interior design, murals, and pottery, as well as carpet and textile designs for leading textile manufacturers. In 1930, Eyre and Martin were commissioned by Reco Capey to create several large murals for the front of the new Yardley shop on Bond Street in London.[9]

Painting
Egg tempera Painting by Maureen Patey (Eyre) Proudman circa 1948

Eyre exhibited paintings at the Leicester Galleries and the Walker Art Gallery.[2] She was awarded first prize in textile design at the North East Coast Exhibition in 1929.

In October 1948, Proudman (then using her married name) exhibited three paintings at the Royal Academy in the RCAA group show: Mentone ‘tout va Bien’, Spring Morning, and Hollyhocks. The Scotsman had this to say of her work:

Two very personal and very decorative painters are Reco Capey … and Maureen Proudman, whose beautiful organized Spring Morning is worthy of detailed appreciation.[10]

Textiles

Proudman taught textile printing at Harrogate School of Art.

Printing & Engraving

Proudman created many small wood engravings the earliest dated 1929 and the latest 1948.

Proudman designed travel posters for Indian Railways, working for the Ministry of Public works in Jodhpur. An example is JODHPUR / SEE INDIA dated 1934 and printed by G. Claridge and Co. Ltd., Bombay.[11]

References
  1. Obituary: Maureen (Proudman) Lovely, The Guardian, November 16, 1988, p. 27.
  2. Buckman, David (1988). Artists in Britain since 1945. Bristol: Art Dictionaries Ltd.
  3. Who’s Who in Art 16 (1972), p 450.; Sara Gray, British Women Artists: A Biographical Dictionary of 1,000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. (Farwell, Michigan [?]: Dark River, 2019).
  4. "SINGAPORE WEDDING". The Straits Times. 16 March 1932. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  5. Sharp, Dennis and Sally Rendel. Connell Ward and Lucas : Modern movement architects in England 1929-1939. London: Frances Lincoln, 2008.
  6. Sharp, Dennis; Rendel, Sally (2008). Connell, Ward and Lucas. Frances Lincoln Ltd.
  7. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, p. 694.
  8. Roake, Margaret (2005). "The Swan Press Collection." Sybil Campbell Library Monograph Number 4.
  9. Industrial World. March 1931. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. London Art Critic (October 18, 1948). "RCAA Art Show". The Scotsman
  11. "Lot 10: M. EYRE PROUDMAN (1906 - ?). SEE INDIA / JODHPUR. 1934. 39x25 inches, 99x63 cm. G. Claridge & Co., Bombay". Artfact. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
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