Kathleen Bridle
Known primarily as the woman who taught William Scott to paint, Kathleen Bridle was born in Kent and raised in various coastguard stations on the English and Welsh coast, according to her father's job. In 1915 she came to Dublin, where she had relatives, and enrolled at the Metropolitan School of Art. www.whytes.ie She won the prestigious Taylor Scholarship in 1921 and also in that year began exhibiting at the RHA. At the Royal College of Art in London, 1921-5, she accrued further prizes before returning to Dublin, where she spent time in the Clarke family stained glass studio. In 1926 she moved to Fermanagh, where she remained the rest of her life, teaching and painting into her nineties. See Snoddy, pp. 51-2. www.whytes.ie