Violet Banks
Violet Banks was a Scottish artist who painted in oils and watercolours and also decorated pottery.Biography
Banks was born in Kinghorn in Fife and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. She lived in Kirkcaldy for a time before returning to Edinburgh in 1928 to take the post of art mistress at St Ornan's School. She painted figure subjects and interiors in both oil and watercolour and was highly regarded as a pottery decorator. Banks was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Scottish Society of Women Artists and the Society of Scottish Artists. Examples of works by Banks are in the national art collection of Scotland.
