Dorothy Annan

Dorothy Annan (20 January 1900 – 28 June 1983) was an English painter, potter and muralist who was born in Brazil to British parents and was educated in France and Germany.

[1] Born in 1900,[2] Annan exhibited with the Artists' International Association,[3] and once featured in an art show in an air-raid shelter beside work by Augustus John during World War II.

[3] In November 2011 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, DCMS, granted Grade II listed status to Annan's murals on the front of the Fleet Building, 70 Farringdon Street, formerly the largest telephone exchange in London.

Annan visited the Hathernware pottery in Loughborough and hand-scored her designs onto each wet clay tile, her brush marks can also be seen in the fired panels.

[7][9][10] In January 2013, the City of London Corporation agreed to take ownership of the murals, and in September 2013 these were moved to a permanent location in a publicly accessible part of the Barbican Estate.