Elisabeth Collins

Elisabeth Ward Collins (née Ramsden, 31 October 1904 – 17 January 2000), was a British painter and sculptor.

Collins was born and brought up in Halifax in Yorkshire where her father was the editor, and owner, of a local newspaper, the Halifax Courier and Guardian and her mother, who was originally from Charleston in West Virginia, was an amateur concert pianist.

[1] In 1973 Collins and her husband were jointly commissioned to decorate a chapel in Chichester Cathedral.

[5] After his death in 1989, Elisabeth Collins used her husband's studio to produce a body of work.

[7] Retrospective exhibitions of Elisabeth Collins' art were held at both the Albemarle Gallery in London during 1989 and at England & Co. in 1996.