| Clifford Fishwick
1923-97
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(untitled) Devon Landscape 1948
watercolour 37 x 52 cm |
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(untitled) Liverpool Skyline 1947
watercolour 36 x 54 cm |
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Clifford Fishwick
1923-97 was a painter and teacher, 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 in1950s-1960s and had a solo show in
1983. 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 Stael. His later work was darker, more loosely
put together and more abstract.
Public galleries in Exeter, Plymouth and
Bradford hold examples.
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