The Gates of Paradise, Susa
Painter Dinora Mendelson was born in 1924, the daughter of the artist Lilian Holt and her first husband Jacob Mendelson. Upon her mother’s second marriage, she became step-daughter to the painter David Bomberg, with whom she studied at the Borough Polytechnic from 1947-53, becoming a member of the Borough Group and the Borough Bottega. She was married to the painter Leslie Marr (1948-56), whom she also introduced to Bomberg's classes; her second marriage was to the actor Bernard Davies-Rees. She exhibited at the Archer Gallery and with the London Group and the National Society, as well as with Ben Uri. She died in London in 2009.
