Edwina SandysMBE (born 22 December 1938)[1] is an English artist and sculptor. She is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill.
Early life
Sandys was a debutante, and was presented to Queen Elizabeth II.[2] After attending a genteel girls’ school she went to Paris, then had a job "answering the doorbell" for a dress designer, and a stint as a secretary.[3] She later became a Sunday Telegraph columnist and a novelist.[2] Her career as an artist began in 1970.[3]
Sandys also worked with the Missouri University of Science and Technology, located in Rolla, Missouri, to use a new way to make deep cuts in granite to create the Millennium Arch sculpture which stands across the campus from their Stonehenge monument. The Arch is a single trilithon with a vague silhouette of a man and a woman on each of its supporting megaliths, several meters from the arch.[6]
In an interview with New York Social Diary Edwina discusses one of her more well known works, "Christa". Edwina describes her reasoning behind the sculpture, explaining that though she is not a religious person, she felt the need to represent women within what's often considered the most important image: Jesus on the cross. She states that the sculpture showed the suffering of women as well.[7]
She married Piers Dixon in 1960 and they were divorced in 1970.[2] They have two sons, Mark Pierson Dixon (b. 1962) and Hugo Duncan Dixon (b. 1963).[3]
She married the architect Richard D. Kaplan in 1985; he died in 2016.[11]
References
^ abLovell, Mary S. (2012). "1938-9 Towards Armageddon". The Churchills: a family at the heart of history - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill. London: Abacus. p. 401. ISBN9780349119786. The year 1938 was a bad one for Clementine's health... Again, Winston was too busy to join her. He wrote to her on 19 December... Ten days later Diana gave prematurely and easily to a baby daughter whom she called Edwina. 'The baby is tiny but perfect,' Winston reported, 'and by my latest news, thriving.'