Gertrude Hermes 1901-1983

Gertrude Hermes was a sculptor of figures and portrait busts and a wood engraver. She was born in 1901 in Bromley, Kent and studied at the Beckenham School of Art and under Leon Underwood. Hermes was married to Blair Hughes-Stanton in 1926 but divorced in 1933. She was a member of the English Wood-Engraving Society 1926; Society of Wood-Engravers 1933; London Group 1935; R.E. 1951.

Hermes worked for the Cresset Press, the Gregynog Press, the Golden Cockerel Press. She designed a mosaic floor, carved fountain and door fittings for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford on Avon in 1930. She spent the 1940-5 war years in Canada and the U.S.A. and executed various commissions therem as well as being a teacher of Wood Engraving and Animal Drawing at the Central School from 1948. A.R.A. 1963.