Alicia Boyle

Alicia Louisa Letitia Boyle RBA, RHA, RUA (1 August 1908 – 11 January 1997) was an Irish abstract marine and landscape artist. Early life and education Alicia Boyle was born on 1 August 1908 to Brudenell P Boyle, an engineer, and his wife Birney in Bangkok, Siam. Boyle had two brothers. She was raised in Limavady in Northern Ireland and moved to London, England with her family at the age of ten. At the age of two Boyle contracted cholera. Boyle began to paint at the age of five. Her parents encouraged her to paint around Limavady and Magilligan. Her mother also introduced her to the work of playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Séan O'Casey, and George Bernard Shaw. Together they attended the theatre and art exhibitions. When her Mother died and her Father remarried, Boyle felt unable to remain in the family home and left to live in a bedsit. At the age of seventeen Boyle enrolled on a teacher-training course at Clapham Art Training School where she studied for four years. From 1929 until 1934 Boyle attended Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, where she studied drawing, painting and mural decoration under Ernest Jackson. Boyle was a prizewinning student who won two scholarships whilst at Byam.