ARTIST and photographer Eleanor Savage has passed away peacefully at the Royal Worcestershire Hospital. She was aged 82.

Eleanor, who died on Tuesday, November 22, lived at Baynhall, Kempsey. She was well known locally for her charitable work and spent much of her time at hospitals and nursing homes in the area encouraging patients to take up art as a means of therapy.

She also held art sessions at her home for both the young and the elderly.

Eleanor specialised in scenes of street entertainers in Worcester and was made an honorary member of the Street Entertainers Guild.

She also did many works of art depicting scenes and characters from the Third World.

For many years Eleanor participated in art exhibitions at the Worcester Guildhall and was a member of the Worcester Camcorder Club and Kempsey Photogra-phic Society. She particularly enjoyed working with the children of the Kempsey Primary School, both in art and dance.

Her most recent project was to paint a mural at the school, which regrettably she was unable to complete.

During the Second World War Eleanor served in Egypt as a radio operator in the Women's Royal Air Force, and was thrilled earlier this year to be invited by the Queen to attend a garden party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the ending of the conflict.

After the war, Eleanor studied art at the Lanchester Poly-Technic College in Coventry and then took up a post as lecturer in graphic design at Nuneaton College of Art.

Her next post was as art teacher at the Summer Lane School in New Town, Birming-ham. Many of her pupils became lifetime friends and visited her regularly throughout the years.

Eleanor is survived by her brother 'Our Barry,' her sisters-in-law Peggy and Dorothy, niece Kaye, nephews Keith, Peter, Michael and their families. In accordance with her wishes she is to be buried with her mother at Redhill Cemetery, Nottinghamshire on Monday, December 5, at 10am.

A memorial service has been arranged at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Kempsey at 3pm on Monday, December 19.

Donations should go to Leukaemia Research c/o C M Lightfoot, Funeral Directors, 36 High Street, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.