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Felixstowe Nub News delves into the life of former Trimley St. Martin resident, artist Yvonne Drewry.

Yvonne Marjorie Drewry was born in Brentford, Middlesex on February 18 1918 to parents Alfred F. Vere Drewry, owner of a motor parts shop, and Ada.

After studying at Southport College of Art, in 1939 Drewry won an Andrew Grant scholarship of £120 a year for three years, to train at the Edinburgh College of Art. She studied under the likes of William George Gillies and John Maxwell.

Drewry was an artist who produced a large quantity of art, in various mediums such as working in oil, watercolour, and pen and ink. She was also a notable print-maker and typographer.

Her work was exhibited regularly in Suffolk galleries, including an annual exhibition at the Denis Taplin Gallery in Woodbridge, Gallery 44 in Aldeburgh, Gainsborough's House, Wolsey Art Gallery and in her own studio.

Still Life [credit: Suffolk Artists]

From 1985, she was part of the 8-1 Suffolk Group, a group of nine artists that teamed up to manage and present their own exhibitions. Her main subjects were landscapes and seascapes celebrating the Suffolk countryside, along with still life pictures of flowers, plants and trees.

She illustrated existing work or used Japanese haiku to inspire her own illustrations; she also produced a posthumous edition of the engravings of Viola Paterson, who was the niece of the painter James Paterson and mother of Drewry's friend from her Edinburgh college days, the artist Anne Paterson Wallace.

Drewry was an important teacher of art at the Amberfield School in Nacton, in Felixstowe, and at various local authority run evening classes for adults; she also ran short painting and printing courses in her own home.

In 1941, Drewry married Robert Alexander Campbell. They had met at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1942, they moved to Trimley St. Martin, where they had four children. They separated in 1968 when Campbell moved to Canada.

She spent her last years in a nursing home in Woodbridge, suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She died in 2007 at age 89.

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