Clifford Fishwick
ARTIST: Clifford Fishwick (1923-1997) British
TITLE: “High Plateau Dartmoor Devon”
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on panel
SIZE: 32cm x 21cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL: Painter and teacher, born near Accrington, Lancashire, married to the painter Patricia Fishwick. He attended Liverpool School of Art, 1940–2, then after Naval service returned to complete his studies, 1946–7, including art teacher’s diploma. Fishwick combined a busy painting career with teaching at Exeter College of Art, becoming principal, 1958–84. He was a member of the Newlyn Society from 1952–83 and exhibited at the Penwith Society in 1950s–1960s and had a solo show in 1983. Fishwick showed solo at St George’s Gallery, in 1957, others including Dartington Hall, 1959; Exeter University, 1961; Plymouth City Art Gallery, 1966; Essex University, 1976; Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 1982; and works of the 1950s at Austin/Desmond Fine Art, 1989, with other works, 1990.Also showed with Bruton Street Gallery. The Universities of Exeter and Plymouth jointly supported memorial exhibitions in 1998. Over the years Fishwick’s style changed as certain influences took effect, the Neo-Romantics, the Cornish painters and the second School of Paris painters such as Nicolas de Staël. His later work was darker, more loosely put together and more abstract. Public galleries in Exeter, Plymouth and Bradford hold examples. Lived in Topsham, Devon.
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