Alicia Louisa Letitia Boyle [commonly known as Alicia Boyle] was born to Irish parents in Bangkok, Siam [now Thailand] on 1 August 1908. In 1909, with her family, she moved to Limavady, Co. Down, Ireland. In 1920 the Boyles moved to London. From 1925 to 1929 she studied at Clapham Art Training College, a teacher training college, and from 1929 to 1934 she attended the Byam Shaw School of Art in London, where she was taught by Francis Ernest Jackson (1872-1945), whom she described as "a genius". In 1934, while still a student, she received a commission to paint a mural of St James’s Park for the lounge of the nurses accommodation at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.

After leaving Byam Shaw, she initially worked as a commercial artist. In 1939 she received an invitation from the Greek Government to be a guest artist at the School of Fine Art in Mykonos. During her time at the school, a solo exhibition of her work was held in Athens. In August 1939 she returned ti London. From 1940 to 1946 she worked as assistant mistress at Northampton High School for Girls, and from 1946 to 1951 taught part-time at Northampton School of Art. Boyle subsequently lived in London until 1963 when she moved to Farnham, Surrey where she became a visiting teacher at West Sussex College of Art and Farnham College of Art. In 1971 she returned to Ireland where she set up a studio in Reen, Durrus, near Bantry, Co. Cork. She later settled in Dublin.

Boyle exhibited at the New English Art Club in London from 1937 to 1943 and occasionally at the Royal Academy in London from 1932 to 1960. She also showed her work at Cooling Galleries, Leicester Galleries, Peter Jones Gallery, Royal Society of British Artists, Leger Galleries and Royal Watercolour Society in London; Cork Arts Society Gallery and Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland; and at Tom Caldwell Gallerie, the Council For the Encouragement for Music and Arts gallery, the United Arts Club and the Oirechtas in Dublin.

She died in Dublin, Ireland on 11 January 1997

Examples of her work are included in the permanent collections of most of the major galleries in Ireland; and in the Imperial War Museum in London; Northampton Central Museum and Art Gallery; and at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery.

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