Evelyn Cheston

Evelyn Cheston née Davy (8 September 1875 – 31 October 1929) was a British painter in oils and watercolours of landscapes and outdoor scenes.

[4] Cheston spent some time at Walter Westley Russell's landscape classes in Yorkshire and there she met her future husband.

[1] She fell ill with Bright's disease which left her disabled but she continued to paint, often outdoors and usually in her signature vivid style.

[3] The impact the Impressionist works she had seen in Paris during 1912 and the influence of her Slade tutor, Philip Wilson Steer, were evident in her use of colour and light.

[1] Two years later her husband wrote Evelyn Cheston, an account of her career and a memoir of their life together which also highlighted instances of discrimination she had faced as a woman artist.