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Encyclopedia > Brigid Marlin
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Brigid Marlin (born January 16, 1936) is a fantasy and portrait artist living in England. She paints in the Mische Technique, a medieval method revived by Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs, with whom she studied in Vienna. January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


Her fantasy work can be classified as Fantastic Realism, i.e. using figurative elements to represent visionary and psychic subjects, often with scriptural themes. is a group of artists formed in Austria in 1946. ...


She has painted portraits, inter alia, of the Dalai Lama, J G Ballard and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Her portrait of J G Ballard hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་; Wylie: Bstan-dzin Rgya-mtsho) (b. ... James Graham Ballard (born November 18, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British novelist. ... Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in her later years as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother The Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Windsor L.G., L.T., C.I., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., née Bowes-Lyon) (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the Queen consort of... James Graham Ballard (born November 18, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British novelist. ... The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in St Martins Place, London, England, which opened to the public in 1856. ...


She founded the Inscape group in 1961, which later became the Society for the Art of Imagination. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


Personal life

Brigid is the daughter of children's book author and artist Hilda van Stockum. She married in 1957. She had three sons, the eldest of whom died in 1979. She was divorced in 1980. Some of her experiences in this regard are documented in her book From East to West: Awakening to a Spiritual Search (ISBN: 0006227627). Hilda van Stockum, about 1960 Hilda Gerarda van Stockum (February 9, 1908-) is a childrens book author and artist. ...


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