Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's former partner Rachel Owen dies of cancer aged 48

An internationally famend artist and the previous long-term accomplice of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has died of most cancers.

Dr Rachel Owen, 48, who was additionally a lecturer in Italian on the College of Oxford, died on Sunday.

Regardless of her battle with most cancers she continued to show till the tip of the Autumn time period.

Dr Rachel Owen, 48, was a lecturer in Italian on the College of Oxford and died on Sunday

Dr Owen met Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on the College of Exeter they usually had been collectively for 23 years

As an artist Dr Owen was identified for mixing pictures and printmaking. She met Mr Yorke on the College of Exeter they usually had been collectively for 23 years. The couple cut up in August 2015.

She had two kids, son Noah,15, and 12-year-old daughter Agnes.

Pembroke School Oxford, the place Dr Owen was a retained lecturer, launched a press release paying tribute.

It stated: 'It's with nice disappointment that the School marks the demise of Dr Rachel Owen.

'Dr Owen was an internationally famend artist - mixing pictures and printmaking - and on the similar time a scholar in medieval Italian literature. 

Dr Owen and Mr Yorke cut up in August 2015

As retained lecturer, she used to show Dante's Divine Comedy to Pembroke's finalists in Italian.

'Dr Owen's parallel ardour for artwork and literature was already established in her college years at Exeter, the place she studied Italian and High-quality Artwork. 

'She then moved to Royal Holloway, London, the place she accomplished a PhD on the illustrations of the early manuscripts of Dante's Divine Comedy.

'Every year, her Pembroke college students loved the pleasure and the privilege of a guided tour by means of the manuscripts of the Divine Comedy held on the Bodleian Library.

'Regardless of her declining well being from most cancers within the final 12 months, she requested to proceed to show, which she did proper till the tip of final Michaelmas time period. She was 48 years previous and leaves behind a son, Noah, and a daughter, Agnes, aged 15 and 12.

'One in all her newest creative productions was a sequence of prints impressed by the Cantos of Dante's first e book of the Divine Comedy. The prints shall be exhibited at Pembroke's JCR Artwork Gallery throughout Trinity time period.' 

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