Artist Information
Artist
Patience Hilda Birley Street (1905-2010)Role
ArtistDate made
1953Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Bedfordshire, England, Patience Hilda Birley Street (née Lloyd) was educated in England and in Belgium. Street was both an artist and photographer. While her preferred painting medium in earlier life was pastel, she later turned more to oil and acrylic. She was a specialist in the portraiture of people and animals, although her first love was portraits animal portraiture.
Street moved to Victoria, B.C. with her husband who was to become a noted architect in the city, and she herself was a student of the artist and educator Ina Uhthoff (1889-1971), later moving to Honolulu, Hawaii. She had many "one-man” shows at art galleries in Victoria and Vancouver, as well as in Honolulu. Street exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society between 1935 and 1941, in the B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1936 to 1949 and in 1939 she had a solo exhibition of "animal portraits in pastel" at the Gallery. Street died at the age of 104 in Hawaii.
