Sylvani Merilion (née Smith) (4 October 1936 - 31 March 2019) was an English artist and former art teacher.
[1] Merilion's artworks in the 1960s featured images of astronauts and space travel, influenced by pop art[2] and the visual forms of the Bauhaus.
[3] The Guardian said of them in 2004 - "Her drawings of astronauts aren't strident or overdetermined, like most Pop works, just bright, clever and clear.
[5] In 1964 Merilion was one of the artists gathered by David Prentice to set up "something to invigorate the city with progressive ideas about art.
[7] Merilion held solo exhibitions at the Ikon in 1965 and 1967 but resigned from the gallery in 1967, largely because she was pregnant, continuing to teach and create her own work.