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Painter, freelance illustrator, muralist, portrait copier, restorer and teacher, born and mainly lived in London, who, after a difficult childhood, studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, 1948–50, teaching there, 1959–60. She won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, 1950, graduating from the painting school with first-class honours, 1954, and in that year an Edward Austen Abbey Scholarship to Rome. Carel Weight, who taught at the Royal College during her time there, eventually becoming professor of painting, remained an admirer of Connie Fenn’s work. Their paintings share a taste for eccentric figures. In 1953 Fenn participated in a large international exhibition in Milan. She showed with the NEAC, 1958–74, of which she was a member, 1969–74, also exhibiting at RA Summer Exhibition from 1956–72; Wildenstein, 1961; and widely elsewhere, having solo shows at Zaydler Gallery, 1973, and Imperial College, 1975.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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