Painter and teacher, using acrylic on canvas and creating geometrical abstracts. She was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, and attended Slade School of Fine Art, 1960–6. Teaching included Southend School of Art, City Literary Institute and Hornsey College of Art. Kent was included in Camden Arts Centre’s 1967 Survey ’67 Abstract Painters, her pictures consisting of layers of paint applied between masking tape in the form of narrow stripes, these being built up into a low relief. From this show the Arts Council acquired Orthian 1, of 1966. Also exhibited at Young Contemporaries, Free Painters and Sculptors and Ben Uri Gallery.

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


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