Lily was the daughter of Dr Charles Blatherwick of Rhu, a medical doctor and talented watercolour painter. Although neither Lily nor her father had any formal art training, both were founder members of the Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1878 (later to become the RSW).
In 1896 after the death of her father, Lily married Archibald Standish Hartrick (her father’s step-son) and moved to England, living in London and Gloucestershire. Hartrick had studied art at the Slade and in Paris and was fairly well established as a painter of country life. It was while in London that Lily was introduced to the art of lithography, through her husband who was a founder member of the Senefelder Club (named after the founder of lithography). She executed some beautiful and individual prints in this medium, which were exhibited in London in 1923.
Lily Blatherwick died in Fulham in 1934. She is best remembered for her depiction of flowers. Always very supportive and appreciative of his wife’s work, Hartrick wrote, “She painted the feeling and spirit of flowers in a way that was unique.”
In 2001 The Anderson (Local Collection) Trust was fortunate to buy from Lyon & Turnbull, this intimate portrait drawing of Lily by her husband, A.S. Hartrick, which had been in the possession of her niece Via Black.
The only work by Lily Blatherwick in the Anderson Trust Collection is:
this lithograph of garden flowers
34x20cm
(Donated by Sylvia Glen 2003
