CRASKE, Olive Muriel
Olive Muriel Craske was born at 2 Cleveland Road, Kirkley, Lowestoft, Suffolk on 12 April 1898, daughter of Edmund George Craske (1857-18 January 1931), a coal merchant, and his wife Hannah née Bishop (1860-19 February 1929), who married at Lowestoft in 1889. In 1911, Olive was a 12-year-old, living at 2 Cleveland Road, Lowestoft with her parents, 54-year-old Edmund and 51-year-old Hannah, and her two sisters, Mary Margaret 18, and Dorothy Grace 14, both born at Lowestoft. A landscape and interior painter, as Olive Muriel Craske she exhibited at the Royal Academy 1923-1924 and as Olive Ashford 1935-1946. Olive married at Lowestoft in 1925, Philip Livingstone Ashford (24 October 1898-18 August 1969), a farmer, and in 1939, was living with her husband at Priory, Burgh St Peter, Loddon, Norfolk. Olive Muriel Ashford died at The Priory, Aldeby, Norfolk on 7 March 1947, aged 48.
Royal Academy Exhibits
from The Houseboat Wanderer, Bursledon, Southampton
1923 799 A Studio - watercolour
from The Wigwam, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, Suffolk
1924 764 In the town Romanian - watercolour
as Olive Muriel Ashton from The Priory, Aldeby, Beccles, Suffolk
1935 1000 Light and Shade - watercolour
1941 627 Elm Trees - watercolour
638 Poplars in Winter - watercolour
1946 853 Sun Rays - watercolour
896 Sunlight - watercolour