Frobisher School of Art

The Margaret Frobisher School in Bushey was an art school founded by artist Lucy Marguerite Frobisher in 1928, continuing the tradition of the Bushey art colony. It was also called the Frobisher School of Painting. Frobisher's school succeeded earlier institutions started by renowned artists. In 1883, Sir Hubert von Herkomer opened a prominent art school in Bushey. His pupil Lucy Kemp-Welch later took it over and renamed it the Bushey School of Painting (later the Kemp-Welch School of Animal Painting).

Marguerite Frobisher, a pupil and long-time companion of Kemp-Welch, became the head of the school after Kemp-Welch's retirement in 1928. The school continued the tradition of painting in the Bushey area, known as an artists' colony. Frobisher specialised in animal painting, and the school offered classes on the subject. The school operated from a rustic, Victorian-era studio initially located on Glencoe Road in Bushey. After Frobisher died in 1974, her former pupils kept the artistic tradition alive. In 2007, the historic Frobisher Studio was carefully relocated to its current site behind the Bushey Museum and Art Gallery. Today, it remains a working art studio and teaching centre.

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