Background
Twort was born on 24 June 1893 in Yeovil, Somerset.
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Flora Twort
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Twort began painting at the age of four, and was educated at the South Hampstead High School, London School of Art, the Regent Street Polytechnic and the Slade School of Artist
Career
Her parents were Albert Samuel Twort and Jane Rapley. At the end of World War I she moved to Petersfield, where she ran a secondhand bookshop at Numbers 1 and 2 The Square, in partnership with two other young women. The shop also sold handmade jewellery, pottery and textiles and gained a reputation as one of the finest book shops in the South of England.
Her pictures, usually watercolours, typically contain local scenes of Petersfield which are filled with people and animals, with such subjects as The Square on Market Day, or the fair on Petersfield Heath.
She also produced drawings in pencil, crayon, charcoal and pastel, including some fine portraits. Foreign a short period in 1939, Shute and his family lived at The Old Mill at Langstone, which she owned.
On her death she bequeathed her studio cottage and pictures to Hampshire County Council. A selection of her pictures is now displayed in her old studios, which have become the Flora Twort Gallery.
The selection is changed twice per year.
Hampshire County Council has also put 600 of her pictures online.
