Clifford Fishwick

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Clifford Fishwick (1923 – 1997)

Clifford Fishwick combined a busy painting career with teaching at Exeter College of Art. Appointed Painting Master there in 1947, he was Principal from 1958 until he retired in 1984, and continued living nearby at Topsham, Devon until his death.

He was born near Accrington, Lancashire, and attended Liverpool School of Art, 1940-42, and 1946-47, the latter period including the Art Teacher’s Diploma. The intervening years were spent on war service in the Royal Navy.

He was a member of the Newlyn Society, 1952-84, and exhibited at the Penwith Society in the 1950’s and ‘60’s. His first solo exhibition was at St. George’s Gallery London in 1957, and this was followed by many more, in the West Country, Oxford and London until the mid-1990’s.

A posthumous retrospective exhibition was held of his work at Exeter College of Art, when the foyer exhibition area of the main campus building was re-designated “The Clifford Fishwick Gallery”.

Public galleries in Exeter, Plymouth and Bradford hold examples of his work. He was married to the painter Patricia Fishwick.

Clifford Fishwick (1923 – 1997)

“Wave 1973”

51cm x 61cm

Oil on canvas

£950