Mary Webb

Mary Webb is an abstract painter and printmaker who lives and works in Suffolk. Born in London in 1939, she studied in the Fine Art Department of the University of Newcastle from 1958 to 1963, holding the Hatton Scholarship in her final year, and then took a postgraduate course at Chelsea School of Art.

She was Head of Foundation Studies at Harrogate School of Art from 1964 to 1966, and taught painting at Norwich School of Art for more than two decades, as a part-time lecturer from 1966 and as Senior Lecturer in Painting from 1973 to 1990. Her work has been shown many times in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and in 2011 the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia held her solo exhibition Journeys in Colour, which travelled to the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle. In 2008 she was commissioned to design the poster for the Sainsbury Centre's exhibition marking forty years of its Constructivist collection.

Her awards include the Northern Arts Print Award, Eastern Arts Awards in 1984 and 1997, the latter for travel and research in Portugal, the Wingfield Arts and Music Painting Award, and an Arts Council award in 2004 for travel and research in Italy. Her work is held in public collections including the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Norwich Castle Museum, the Sainsbury Centre's Constructivist Collection, Abbot Hall, Falmouth Art Gallery, the Arts Council of England and the Sonia Delaunay Collection in Paris.