Thetis Blacker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1927
Place of Birth: Holmbury St Mary, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 18-Dec-2006
Profession: singer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Thetis Blacker
- Ann Thetis Blacker (13 December 1927 – 18 December 2006) was an English painter and singer.
- She was noted for her richly coloured pictures, especially using the batik wax-resist fabric dyeing process.Blacker was born in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, England.
- She was the daughter of Carlos Paton Blacker, a psychiatrist, and granddaughter of Carlos Blacker, a friend of Oscar Wilde.
- Blacker intended to be a singer and studied with the German mezzo-soprano singer Elena Gerhardt in London.
- She appeared in the chorus at Glyndebourne opera in the 1950s and sang the role of "Mother Goose" in The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky.
- When her singing career was cut short by vocal issues in the mid-1950s, Blacker turned her focus to painting.
- She studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London and was taught by the wife of the artist Leonard Campbell Taylor, Brenda Moore.In 1970, Blacker became a Churchill Fellow and visited India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
- She worked at the Batik Research Institute in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
- She went on to visit Bali and Peru, influencing her style of brightly coloured symbolic pictures using batik dyed fabric.
- A number of cathedrals and churches in the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, and the United States commissioned her work including a series of five major pieces based on mythical themes: Apocalypse (at St Andrew's House), Arbor Cosmica, A Bestiary of Mythical Creatures, The Creation (at Winchester Cathedral), and Search for the Simurgh. Blacker received commissions for artworks at: St George’s Chapel, Windsor (1997), with an exhibition there in 2000; St Albans Abbey; Three works in Grey College Chapel at the University of Durham (The Creation of Darkness and Light, Imago Aquarium, and Imago Lucis); A Phoenix in the dining hall of Grey College, Durham (2000); Banners of St Cuthbert and St Oswald at Durham Cathedral (2001).Blacker's work was exhibited at Glyndebourne in 2005.
- Her dealer was Henry Dyson and she died in Bramley, Surrey in 2006.
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