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Betty Swanwick was a painter, designer, illustrator and teacher born in London. She was the daughter of the marine painter Henry Gerard Swanwick. She studied at Goldsmiths' College School of Art, where her teachers included Clive Gardiner and Edward Bawden. She also went to the Royal College of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Later she taught for some years at Goldsmiths'. Betty Swanwick designed posters and advertisements for London Passenger Transport Board, Shell-Mex and BP and Central Office of Information. She painted murals for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and for the Festival of Britain in 1951. She did illustrations for her own humorous novels as well as for periodicals. Her superb pencil draughtsmanship was a distinctive feature of RA Summer Exhibitions and she was elected a Royal Academician in 1979. She also exhibited at, and was a member of, the Royal Society of Painters in watercolour.
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