Kathleen Guthrie

[1][2] During a long career Guthrie painted in oils and watercolours, produced silkscreens and murals and wrote and illustrated children's books.

In 1932, while in Boston, Kathleen Guthrie had the first solo exhibition of her career with works shown at the Grace Horne Gallery in that city.

[6][7] The painting shows the scene in a hospital ward after it has been hit by a bomb that has left a large hole in a wall and mangled beds.

The expressions on the faces of the attending staff, and the blood stained sheets, suggest dead or severely injured patients lying on the floor out of sight of the viewer.

During the 1960s Guthrie produced a further series of abstract silk screens, which she titled Camelot, that featured combinations of fields of pure colour.