Mabel Frances Wickham was an artist . She studied art at the Clapham High School 1919-1923 and went on to teach art at Lord Digby’s School, Sherborne. By the early 1930s she opted to teach part time so as to develop her own painting, for 14 years attending summer landscape painting courses run by Reginald St Clair Marston. Was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society

Royal Watercolour Society

The Royal Watercolour Society is an English institution of painters working in watercolours...

 in 1936, and The Royal Academy of Arts in 1938. Was made an associate of the Society of Women Artists

Society of Women Artists

-History :The Society was founded in 1855 as the Society of Female Artists and held its first exhibition two years later. The Society has since held an annual exhibition in London of work by women artists....

 in 1936. Member of the Sherborne Art Club. She moved to Weymouth, Dorset where she ran her own summer art courses. There was a retrospective at Chesil Gallery, Chiswell 1988 and an exhibition at Dorset County Museum

Dorset County Museum

The Dorset County Museum is located in Dorchester, Dorset, England. Founded in 1846, the museum covers the county of Dorset's history and environment. The current building was built in 1881 on the former site of the George Inn...

, Dorchester, who have several of her studio works.

Exhibited: Royal Academy 5
Royal Institute of Painters of Watercolour 10
Society of Women Artists 11

Lived: Sutton Scotney, Hampshire 1930
Sherborne, Dorset 1939