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Chronology

  • 1912 - 1912
    Born 8 June, St Andrews, Fife
  • 1936 - 1940
    Studio at 5 Alva Street, Edinburgh
  • 1939 - 1939
    Worked in Scotland (Aviemore and Rothiemurchus)
  • 1940 - 1940
    Went to Cornwall, met contemporaries
  • 1940 - 1940
    Moved into No. 3 Porthmeor Studios
  • 1942 - 1942
    Became member of Newlyn Society of Artists and St Ives Society of Artists.
  • 1949 - 1949
    Worked on glacier drawings and gouaches in Switzerland
  • 1949 - 1949
    Worked in Paris
  • 1949 - 1949
    Founder member of the Penwith Society of Artists
  • 1951 - 1951
    Worked in Italy and Scilly Isles
  • 1954 - 1955
    Worked in Tuscany, Calabria and Sicily
  • 1958 - 1958
    Worked in Spain, France and the Balearics
  • 1960 - 1960
    Inherited Balmungo estate, near St Andrews
  • 1963 - 2004
    Worked in Scotland
  • 1963 - 2004
    Worked in St Ives
  • 1984 - 1985
    Worked in Orkney
  • 1989 - 1992
    Worked in Lanzarote
  • 1987 - 1987
    Establishes the Barns-Graham Trust (activated upon her death in 2004)
  • 2004 - 2004
    Died 26 January, St Andrews