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Isabel Brodie Babianska (1920-2006) was a Scottish painter, and founder member of the New Scottish Group. She worked on various commissions as a costume and stage designer, and as an illustrator and model.

Childhood
Isabel Brodie Babianska was born 5 February 1920 in Glasgow. Her father was a decorative metal worker in the Glasgow shipyards who encouraged her from a young age in her artistic abilities.

Glasgow School of Art
As encouraged by her father, she studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1936-1940. She was awarded a travelling scholarship to London in 1939, however as war was declared shortly afterwards she remained in Glasgow, returning the scholarship money. The same year she exhibited a self-portrait, titled 'Reflection' at the Royal Glasgow Insitute, which was bought by Glasgow City Council for Kelvingrove Art Gallery in 1940. This painting depicts the artist at the side of her easel, paintbrushes in hand. On graduating from Glasgow, she studied at the Hospitalfield School of Art during 1941.

Career
She was commissioned by Glasgow Corporation in 1941 to design and paint murals at the Y.W.C.A. headquarters in Bath Street. She was helped by her close friend Marie de Banzie. They collaborated in the design of costume and stage sets for the Celtic Ballet, including Macbeth, Conte Russes, L'Obsession amongst others. She also illustrated Scottish Art and Letters, and designed the cover for Poetry Scotland No.2.

She was a founder member of and exhibited regularly with the New Scottish Group.

She continued to paint in London, but also worked successfully as a photographic fashion model, for agencies including Dior and Hartnell, and was featured on the cover of various fashion magazines, including Vogue. She ran Whittaker Model Agency, inherited from her friend Michael Whittaker, until she died in 2006.

Personal Life
In 1943 she married Count Tomasz Babianski, a Polish pilot officer. She had two daughters, named Monica and Irena. The first born 1945, and the second born in 1946, after they had moved to London.