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Nadia Cockayne 1933 - 2018
Nadia was born Nadia Szynkiewicz in Buffalo, New York, USA.
She gained her Masters at Philadelphia School of Art.
She worked for a time as an illustrator and artist in New York city before moving to England with her husband, Jeremy Cockayne.
She lived in Suffolk on the banks of the Stour for 12 years where she painted landscapes in oils and did some fine glass engravings.
Later, she moved to York and, her children being grown up, she had more time for painting and had several successful exhibitions of still lives and landscapes at the Stonegate Gallery.
At this time she was also in demand as a portrait painter and was asked to paint Christoper Rowntree. This portrait still hangs in the Merchant Adventurers Hall in York.
In her later years she produced some very fine oil pastel landscapes.
Following the death of her husband she moved to Rye in East Sussex.
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