26 ARTIST


Eveline Roberge


(OCTOBER) AND SHOWING NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN. In fact she has a painting commis- sion of Kingsbridge on the go at the moment. For decades Eveline lived with her


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American husband Robert in Rhode Island, USA, where she sold hundreds of paintings. Her paintings and prints are still exchanging hands on multi- ple online art auction sites. Eveline was born in Portishead in 1920, the youngest of six children. During World War II she was a Red


Cross nurse as part of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), and also served full-time in the National Fire Service.


RTIST EVELINE ROBERGE IS CELEBRATING HER 99TH BIRTHDAY THIS MONTH


“At 5am I’d go home, get my mother out of the air raid shelter, have a cup of coffee, change into my fire service uniform and hop on a train to Bristol to work in the fire service.


She said: “I used to put my mother and our dog Jock in the air raid shel- ter, hop on my bike and go down to St Peter’s School, a makeshift hospital. All night I’d be putting up trays for the doctor to treat shrap- nel wounds from the bombings in Bristol. “At 5am I’d go home, get my mother out of the air raid shelter, have a cup of coffee, change into my fire service uniform and hop on a train to Bristol to work in the fire service. “I did that full-time, seven days a


week. No one went to bed during the war! We caught naps when we could. Everybody was doing it. We had a job to do, there was a war on.” Eveline had a lucky escape in


Plymouth, narrowly missing a Ger- man air raid after she visited the city to address a fire service meeting. She smiled: “In those days, until the war there were no fire women just fire men. I was asked to address a meeting


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