Violet Banks (3 March 1896 – 1985) was a Scottish artist who painted in oils and watercolours and also decorated pottery.
[2] She lived in Kirkcaldy for a time before returning to Edinburgh in 1928 to take the post of art mistress at St Ornan's School.
[3][4] She painted figure subjects and interiors in both oil and watercolour and was highly regarded as a pottery decorator.
The photographs and films that were curated by Jenny Brownrigg were by Helen Biggar, Banks, Christina Broom, M.E.M.
Donaldson, Dr Beatrice Garvie, Jenny Gilbertson, Isabel Frances Grant, Ruby Grierson, Marion Grierson, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Johanna Kissling, Isabell Burton-MacKenzie, Margaret Fay Shaw and Margaret Watkins.