Salusbury, Theodora
Theodora Salusbury (1875-1956) was an artist and craftswoman in the Arts & Crafts style. Unfortunately, all of the artist’s records were destroyed but it is known that she studied at the Royal College of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where she is likely to have been taught by Karl Parsons. Subsequently in 1907 she entered the Slade School of Art and went on to take up a four year apprenticeship with Christopher Whall.
While maintaining a studio in London until the mid-1930s by 1925 she had her own studio at St Agnes in Cornwall where she continued to design windows during the most productive phase of her life between 1920 and 1940. Her work is to be found in nearly thirty churches in England and Wales, several of them in Leicestershire, her home county.
The impact of her windows comes through her use of brilliant colour and her skilled representation of the figures she portrayed. Most of her windows bear her signature mark of a peacock.
Source: Theodora Salusbury, Stained Glass Artist by Georgina Maltby and Andrew Loutit, 2018
