Marion Adnams:
A Singular Woman

Marion Adnams (1898 – 1995) was a versatile and deeply imaginative artist who lived and worked in Derby for much of her life. She drew and made wood-engravings from an early age and, after training as a language teacher, enrolled at Derby School of Art where she was encouraged to retrain as an art teacher. It was during this time that she began painting pictures in a surrealist style; placing unrelated objects in unexpected and mysterious-looking landscapes, where they take on new life and meani...