Angela Mary Flowers (née Holland; 19 December 1932 – 11 August 2023) was a British gallerist[1] who founded Flowers Gallery, a commercial art gallery that today operates in London, New York City, and Hong Kong.
In an interview she recalled, "I met Adrian in the January and proposed to him in the February because it was leap year ... and we got married a few weeks later.
[5] Her arts career began following a family holiday in St Ives, where they met many of the resident artists.
[1] Flowers Gallery opened in central London in 1970 in an attic of the Artists' International Association in Lisle Street.
[7] From December 2012 to February 2013, the Shoreditch gallery hosted an exhibition, Angela Flowers at 80, marking her 80th birthday.
[1] Flowers's youngest son, Daniel married sculptor Nicola Hicks, a long-time gallery client.
"[1] They married in 2003 and he died in 2012,[1] having earlier developed Parkinson's disease;[4] in 2009, they had moved from Highgate in north London to Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.