Matilda Tumim is a painter and draughtsman, born in London, who was a pupil at Bedales School, 1976–81. She was included in the exhibition Bedales Art & Design, organised in 1999 by the William Jackson Gallery at Art99, in the Business Design Centre. Tumim studied at Chelsea School of Art, 1981–2; Falmouth College of Art, 1982–5; and Royal College of Art, 1986–8. Mixed shows included South Bank Picture Show, Festival Hall, prize winner, 1987; The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, prize winner, 1992; Contemporary Art Society Market, 1994; and The Judge Hangs, Michael Parkin Gallery, 1997. She shared a show at Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, 1998. Later solo exhibitions included Blue Gallery, 1996. Contemporary Art Society, Orkney’s Tankerness House Museum and Islands Council, and Unilever hold examples ('Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman)
