Included are Joan's 2xGtGd mother and 3xGtGd mother.
Painting "Five Generations" possibly mid 19th century.
copyright © Malvern Hostick or clients, unless otherwise stated.
Nov. 1944. She is standing on the left.
a group of school boys.
Nov 20th 1939, at age nineteen.
Joan died in February 2007, aged 86, leaving a considerable body of work.
With a hope that this will not be broken up, it is being assembled and
catalogued in order to find it a suitable home.
Joan's web site will include not only her work, but biographical details
and historic and family history background, augmented with photographic
images. Those who knew Joan will be able to add reminiscences.
These can be logged even now by emailing:
emailmalvern@aol.com
Below you will find examples of her paintings and drawings going back to
the late 1940's, with other historical imagery; these added to occasionally
and later transferred to Joan's web site.
Enjoy these and please visit her future web site.
This page last updated: March 30th 2007.
To see more of Joan and her work, click here for the WMC Life Class.
1920- 2007.
Born at Whitworth,
Joan took a degree in drawing and painting with a mural art diploma
at Manchester School of Art, attaining a fourth-year scholarship. Later, she was awarded a Royal Scholarship on entrance to
Early in her career she was a member of the Manchester Group.
L.S. Lowry was a member too; an acquaintance whom she recalled
attending meetings, and occasionally giving lectures after his
rounds as a rent collector. The Group, chaired by another
acquaintance, the wood engraver Margaret Pilkington of the
philanthropic Pilkington Glass family, met at the Whitworth Art
Gallery, also run by Margaret Pilkington. Joan exhibited regularly
with the Manchester Group, at the Manchester Ballet Club, in
travelling Arts Council exhibitions, and at the M
She also designed murals for UMIST (
in
Hall, and with the London Group.
She taught in various art schools and colleges up to degree level,
and lately lectured on anatomy with movement at the Slade School of Fine Art Summer School. In fact Joan was an acknowledged authority
on combining these disciplines informed by her association with the
ballet; an expertise rarely found nowadays. These were
encouraged for many years within her own course ‘Anatomy, Life and
Movement,’ the only one of its type in
To her classes she attracted prosessional painters, sculptors,
architects, and those studying within higher and adult education,.
Joan never stopped her own work, lately mainly drawing.
As a respected source on art anatomy and movement in figure
drawing, she offered instruction regularly.
She continued to exhibit, with others and in one-woman shows.
sketches and mural designs, from the 1940s / early 1950s, and later drawings from the past ten years.
Preliminary work , with
finished painting right.
and associated correspondence.