Hermione Burton (1925) was a Bedford based who painted her whole life but only exhibited twice.
Living with her American husband in the US, she became one of the first patients in the country to undergo what was then experimental open-heart surgery. Hermione survived, and it was during her recovery that she attended occupational therapy classes and began to paint in oils. These early compositions depicted the major events of her life and often included herself and her immediate family.
According to Hermione, it was Tom Jones singing Green Green Grass of Home on TV which prompted her to divorce her husband and leave America. She returned home to Aylesbury, and within six years had met and married her third husband, Frank Burton. The couple moved to Bedford in 1979, where she began to promote her paintings and portraits locally.
Hermione’s work was discovered by chance in a charity shop by Andy Holden and the remainder of her oeuvre was steadily tracked down, acquired and restored over the course of the next year.
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