Audrey Amiss: sketch books

Audrey frequently sketched life around her, with common themes including people, flowers and plants, life drawing, London city / street scenes, and more local sketches from South West London (Clapham South), animals (mainly at London Zoo or in London parks), and objects / still life (not composed). Works are in pencil, coloured pencil, wax pastel and water colour paint, with occasional felt tip pen and ball point pen.

These volumes are frequently annotated with the subject of the sketch, and often dated. Audrey would often fill a whole sketchbook in one sitting or day, drawing things as she encountered them.

A family member has estimated that there are approximately 50,000 individual pages of sketches within Audrey's sketchbooks. The volumes date from 1950s up to 2013.

1950s-2013

850 volumes and 4 files