Irene Bache

ALTHOUGH BETTER known in her adopted Wales than in her native England, the artist Irene Bache travelled extensively in search of subject matter, exhibited widely and, in true Bohemian fashion, sold her sketches to fellow tourists, whether in Venice, France or the West Indies.

As a watercolorist in the tradition of her heroes, Turner, John Cotman and Constable, she was pre-eminent in the depiction of the dramatic landscape of South Wales, and in particular of Gower, with its brooding skies, sheer cliffs and wild seas.