Anna Adams (9 March 1926 – 2 October 2011) was an English poet and artist.
Biography
Anna Adams was born Anna Theresa Butt on 9 March 1926, at Richmond, Surrey. When she was two years old, her family relocated to Northwood, a town fifteen miles northwest of London. She was the youngest of three children. Her father was a journalist. During the First World War he had been a conscientious objector.
At the age of thirteen, Adams won a scholarship to Harrow School of Art, where she obtained the National Diploma in Design (NDiD) in painting in 1945. At Harrow she met her future husband, the painter Norman Adams. They married on January 18, 1947. She continued to use her maiden name for her art work. She then studied sculpture at Hornsey College of Art, exhibiting in the Young Contemporaries show in London. There she completed her second NDD. After college she took a job as a part-time teacher. She held a number of jobs related to her arts training. She was a designer at Chelsea Pottery (1953-1955), a part-time art teacher in Manchester (1966-1970), and an art teacher at Settle College secondary school (1971-1974).
