Multi-media artist who worked in painting, collage, etching and print, and founder of the influential group Women's Art Works. Denny Long was a member of the Royal West of England Academy, a committee member of the Newlyn Society of Arts and of the St Ives Society of Artists, and an associate member of Penwith Society of Artists
Denny Long was born in Bristol in 1944 to Linda, a seamstress and gardener, and Harold Johnston, a hot-air balloonist. Long studied at Redland high school for girls and West of England College of Art. While she was still a student she travelled to Japan to research Hamada pottery and ash glazing, a trip that would turn out to have a big influence on her life, both spiritually and artistically.
Denny Long worked and taught in Bristol for many years, but after she and her husband - the landscape artist Richard Long - divorced in 1995, she moved to Penzance, and some years later to Zennor. As well as being a successful artist, Denny Long was also the UK representative of the Tibetan Refugee Nuns Project, and ran Westcotts Quay Gallery in St Ives, with her partner Jon Grimble
