Jocelyn Rickards (29 July 1924 – 7 July 2005) was an Australian artist and costume designer.
She was born in Melbourne in 1924, and moved to London as a young woman.[1] During the 1940s to 1950s, she was one of the Merioola Group of artists. The review of her works in a 1948 exhibition by Paul Haefliger was the source of the coined phrase "The Charm School" to describe these Sydney artists.[2][3]
Rickards was married to Leonard Rosoman from 1963 until divorcing in 1970; the following year, she married Clive Donner.[1] Her autobiography The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves, was published in 1987 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and was praised thus by Graham Greene (a former lover of hers): "An outstanding capacity for friendship - rare in the jealous world of art and letters to which she belongs - makes Jocelyn Rickard's autobiography unusually appealing".
Rickards died from pneumonia at a care home in Virginia Water, Surrey, on 7 July 2005, at the age of 80.[1]
