A WELL known artist from Hay-on-Wye has died.

Jean Miller, whose paintings had been collected by playwright Arnold Wesker, died on Friday, January 17 at Bronllys Hospital. She had been diagnosed with cancer and was aged 84.

During the Hay Festival she would open her home as an art gallery, exhibiting her own work - and proving a popular and regular attraction for festival visitors.

Her daughter Polly, also an artist, said: "She was larger than life, very vivacious and full of life as her paintings were. She will be greatly missed in Hay, she was a great character."

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