Doris Schrecker, artist

Bruno Schrecker was a classical recording artist of note, and something of a celebrity. In the south of France, he was tutored by Pablo Casals. He and Doris had met and married after she graduated in 1953 from the University of London.

She had been born Doris Wilkinson, the daughter of an amateur painter, and granddaughter to William Scott Wilkinson, a local musician.

Educated at Keighley Girls’ Grammar, she went on to study at Skipton Art School, where she was a pupil of the artist, John Midgley, and studied alongside the sculptor and painter, Roy Bell.

In 1950, she won a County Major art scholarship to study painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.

After her marriage to Bruno, she taught art at a primary school in Wimbledon and began to exhibit her own work, which proved popular with the public. She had begun to experiment with fabric collage, influenced by Chagall, Redon, and Picasso, and was encouraged by the Roland, Browse and Delbanco gallery in London, which exhibited her work.

Her first solo show was held in the former Keighley museum in Victoria Park in 1957. Four years later, she exhibited an exhibition of fabric collages at the Geffrye Museum in London, and then at the Aldeburgh Festival. She subsequently exhibited collages extensively in the UK and overseas.

In July 1970, Cliffe Castle in Keighley, exhibited Mrs Schrecker’s collage artwork and she was later commissioned to design and work on ten large fabric hangings for the ballroom at the Park Lane Hilton.

However, by the late 1970s, she had returned to painting, with impressionist-style artwork characterized by its strong colours.

She held a solo exhibition of her paintings at the University of Wales in 1982 and was a residential adult education art tutor, leading holiday courses in drawing, painting and embroidery at her own home in Wales.

She returned to Yorkshire in 2001 and worked from her home and studio near Skipton, producing, under the name Dorie Schrecker, predominantly portraits, still life and realistic landscape scenes. She also painted landscape scenes characterised with ethereal and dream-like images.

• Examples of Doris Schrecker’s work