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100.Cherith McKinstry (1928-2004)
Man with purple coat
Indian Ink and watercolour, 20 X 15 cm
Signed
Prov. From the Lewinter-Frankl Collection
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Cherith Boyd was born inWorcester in 1928; she came to Ulster as a child and during
the war years was evacuated with her school to Co.Tyrone. Having interrupted initial
studies in sculpture at the Belfast College of Art, she returned there from 1950 to 1953
to study painting under RomeoToogood, meeting fellow students Basil Blackshaw and T.
P. Flanagan. A CEMA travelling scholarship brought her to Italy in 1953 and in 1958 she
married the architect Robert McKinstry. Her first solo show was at the CEMA Gallery,
Belfast in 1962. Public commissions included Stations of the Cross for St McNissi’s,
Magherahoney, Co Antrim, a large staircase mural for Queen’s University, and her most
celebrated work, the six large tromp l’oeil ceiling panels for the restored Belfast Opera
House.
