Hilda Woolnough
| Hilda Woolnough | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Hilda Mary Woolnough 1934 Northampton, England |
| Died | 2007 Charlottetown, Canada |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Arts, advocacy |
| Notable work | Guantanamo, Time Piece |
Hilda Mary Woolnough RCA, (1934–2007) was an artist who exhibited in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and North America. She lived in the artistic community of Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Woolnough was born in Northampton, England in 1934, to a family with a long history of painters, including her mother, uncle and brother. Beginning traditional training at the Chelsea School of Art in London in 1952, and studying amongst a group of renowned artists, including Henry Moore, she experimented with printmaking and graduated with a focus in painting in 1955. She married psychiatrist Dennis Hopkins and together they had three children, Daniel, Lee, and John. Emigrating to Canada in 1957, she settled in Hamilton, Ontario, but left in 1965 to go to San Miguel de Allende Instituto in Mexico to study experimental etching, graduating in 1967 with a focus in graphics and a Masters in Fine Arts. Returning to London, she enrolled in the Central School of Art and Design, where she did post-grad technical art metal work.
Woolnough established an etching and lithography program at the [Jamaica School of Art] in [Kingston, Jamaica]. By this time, she had remarried Reshard Gool, a Canadian poet/writer/publisher, who founded a publication company known as Square Deal and wrote best-selling novel, Cape Town Coolie. Woolnough and Gool bought a home in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and taught at the University of Prince Edward Island, while forming a vibrant art society and starting their own newspaper, that failed only after a pro-radical Quebec separationist appearance in the paper created controversy within the broader community. During the 1970s, Hilda worked with native quilting, during the Native American craft revival. In the 1980s, Hilda worked in the crafts program at Holland College, in PEI. Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts stated the following, "Besides her career as an artist and arts advocate, she shared her great passion with her students, for the integration of strong design principles in handcraft design." In 1989 her partner Reshard Gool died, and she and her family created a provincial scholarship for Prince Edward Island students in his honor.
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