Julia Trevelyan Oman, British Theatrical designer. Decorated Commander of the Order of the British Empire; recipient Silver medal Royal College of Art, Designer of Year award, 1967, American Council on Exercise award for best art direction NCTA, 1983; named Royal scholar; elected Royal Designer for Industry, 1977. Member visiting committee department education and science Royal College of Art, 1980.
Background
Trevelyan Oman was born on 11 July 1930 in Kensington, London, England. Her father was Charles Chichele Oman, Keeper of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum (his father was the military historian and Member of Parliament Sir Charles Oman), her mother the historian Joan Trevelyan, daughter of Sir Ernest John Trevelyan.
Education
Student, Royal College Art. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Bristol University, 1987.
Career
Among the British Broadcasting Corporation television programmes she worked on were Dixon of Dock Green and the Billy Cotton Band Show. She later designed sets for the Chichester Festival, Hamburg State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. They lived at Much Birch, Herefordshire, where they made one of Britain"s largest post-war formal gardens, The Laskett.
In 1995 they commissioned the artist Jonathan Myles-Lea to paint a "portrait" of the house and gardens and the painting The Laskett was completed the same year.
She and Strong also wrote books together. She appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 18 December 1971, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1986.
She died at Much Birch, on 10 October 2003, of pancreatic cancer. A number of her paintings, including a self-portrait, are in the University of Bristol"s Theatre Collection.
Decorated Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Recipient Silver medal Royal College of Art, Designer of Year award, 1967, American Council on Exercise award for best art direction NCTA, 1983. Named Royal scholar; elected Royal Designer for Industry, 1977.
Decorated Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Recipient Silver medal Royal College of Art, Designer of Year award, 1967, American Council on Exercise award for best art direction NCTA, 1983. Named Royal scholar; elected Royal Designer for Industry, 1977.