Background
Hone was born at Roebuck Grove, County Dublin, on 22 April 1894. She was the youngest daughter of Joseph Hone and Eva Eleanor, née Robinson, daughter of Sir Henry Robinson and granddaughter of the 10th Viscount Valentia.
Hone was born at Roebuck Grove, County Dublin, on 22 April 1894. She was the youngest daughter of Joseph Hone and Eva Eleanor, née Robinson, daughter of Sir Henry Robinson and granddaughter of the 10th Viscount Valentia.
Hone studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London and then under Bernard Meninsky at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
She was related to Nathaniel Hone and Nathaniel Hone the Younger. They were commissioned for the Irish Government"s Pavilion at the 1939 New York World"s Fair. They graced International Commission on Illumination"s Head Office in O"Connell Street from 1960 to about 1983.
From December 2005 to June 2006, an exhibition of her work was on display at the National Gallery of Ireland.
She met Mainie Jellett when both were studying under Walter Sickert at the Westminster Technical Institute. She worked under André Lhote and Albert Gleizes in Paris before returning to become influential in the modern movement in Ireland and become one of the founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Artist
She later studied stained glass with Wilhelmina Geddes. This may have influenced her decision to begin working in stained glass.
All Hallows College College Chapel south stained glass window.
The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
The East Window - Eton College Chapel, Windsor. My Four Green Fields - Government Buildings, Dublin. Frontage including arms of provinces - Dublin Business, O"Connell Street
Lanercost Priory, Cumbria
Manresa House, Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
East Window, Street Mary"s Downe, Bromley, Kent
The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery
Highlanes Gallery Drogheda, Company
Louth
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kingscourt, Company
Cavan. Four windows, 1947-1948. Street Michael"s, Highgate, London.
Stained glass window of The Last Supper dating from 1954. Shirley Chapel at Ettington Park, Warwickshire.
Saint John the Baptist, Blackrock, Dublin.
Stained glass windows by Evie Hone in 1955. Two small windows to the side of the altar. Holy Family Remote Control Church, Ardara, Company Donegal.
Rose window.
Mount Carmel Hospital Churchtown Dublin reception area.
Initially she worked as a member of the An Túr Gloine stained glass co-operative before setting up a studio of her own in Rathfarnham.