Kensal Street, oil on board, 61 x 51 cm.

Dorothy Carr (1923-2018)
Dorothy Carr was a printmaker, designer, and teacher born in London. She studied painting at St Martin’s School of Art from 1950 to 1955 and later pursued a master’s degree in contemporary art practice at Kingston University between 1996 and 1998. She also trained in printmaking at the London College of Printing and Graphic Art under printmaker Francis Carr, whom she later married. Carr taught at both Croydon College of Art and St Martin’s, while also working as a freelance textile and wallpaper designer. Her first solo exhibition took place at the ICA Gallery in 1970, followed by shows at the Gardiner Art Centre, Sussex University, in 1991, and at First Edition, Canary Wharf, London, in 2002. From 1995, she was actively involved in the formation of the Paper Group and was a member of both the Landscape and Arts Network and the Women’s Art Library.
Her work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum.