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JOYCE
HADDON. 1914 - 1994
Joyce Haddon's paintings are available for reproduction as images from The Bridgeman Art Library - www.bridgeman.co.uk. Any image on this website not available from Bridgeman can be made available via them by arrangement. Titles on this website may differ from Bridgeman titles. 
THE ARTIST Joyce
Haddon studied at Cambridge and the Royal Academy Schools where
she won the Creswick medal for landscape and Landseer prizes for
landscape, drawing and painting from the antique.
She
married a farmer and had three children. Her painting was first
interrupted by World War 11, when she worked on the farm to produce
food for the war effort. For several more years she put her growing
family first and did little painting. Two decades of non-painting
were a serious setback to her talent.
At
the age of 46 she went back to painting and painted until the
last six weeks before her death in a nursing home from cancer
of the tongue.
Her
paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition,
exhibitions in Paris, Sydney, Belfast, Birmingham and many more.
She was a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society
of British Artists, showing her work regularly at their annual
exhibitions. She also showed her work regularly at the Llewellyn
Alexander Gallery, The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1.
She
saw the inner glory in the commonplace. Her grave bears these words:
"Earth's crammed with heaven."
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