And as a pioneering painter of women and war, Dame Laura Knight – the subject of a new exhibition – didn’t disappoint. By Kathryn Hughes. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

Dame Laura Knight is a painter who is at least as famous for what she painted as for the quality of her work. This retrospective looks back across her career showcasing her variety and the ...

By 1939, Laura Knight was a Dame, a Royal Academician and a household name, but her finest hour came with the Second World War. She charted the mobilisation of women as land girls, air-raid wardens ...

Dame Laura Knight was born in 1877 and grew up in Nottingham. Her early life was steeped in poverty. Her father walked out on the family and later her mother died. She had to bring the rest of the ...

Why modern England does not produce great painters was partly explained by England’s greatest living woman painter this week when Dame Laura Knight, first and only full-fledged female member of ...

Growing old and a trifle gnarled, the grand dame of British art still paints every day in her London “workshop.” “It’s not grand enough to call a studio,” she insists, adding, rightly ...

Dame Laura, who married fellow artist Harold Knight in 1903, was only the second woman to be elected as a full member of The Royal Society in 1936. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook , on ...

Dame Laura Knight: I Paint Today opens at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum on Saturday. Many of her paintings include the Malvern Hills through the seasons.

The exhibition was opened by Cllr Cynthia Palmer, who is also a member of the Dame Laura Knight society. The display will be up until August 4, showing off some of her most famous works.

A girl who made it into art school at 13 was always going to go far in life. And as a pioneering painter of women and war, Dame Laura Knight – the subject of a new exhibition – didn’t ...