Obituaries of artists from, or closely associated with, the British Isles
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Ivor Adams • Charles Bartlett • Moira Beaty • Denis Bishop • William Bowyer • John Busby • Roger Cecil • Robert Clatworthy • Ron Costley • Alfred Daniels • Ray Exworth • Catherine Fried • Moira Gemmill • Sheila Girling • James Gowan • Rigby Graham • Michael Graves • Martin Honeysett • John “Hoppy” Hopkins • John Hopwood • Albert Irvin • Ron Jones • Mike King • Jack Knox • Doug Luke • Sargy Mann • Steve Mills • Richard Morris • Cavendish Morton • Robin Page • Felicity Powell • Gwilym Prichard • Noreen Rice • Nicola Russell • Brian Sewell • Peter Sisam • Katharine Talati • Janet Turner • Derek Walker • Fritz Wegner • Marion Whybrow • Paul Woodrow
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MIKE KING : Guardian , SJA , Telegraph (top)
2001 Grand National
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MARION WHYBROW : Guardian (top)
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PAUL WOODROW : Guardian (top)
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BRIAN SEWELL : Art Newspaper , BBC , Guardian 1 , Guardian 2 , Telegraph (top)
Photo: David Levenson
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JAMES GOWAN : Architects’ Journal , Guardian, Telegraph (top)
“Structural feats and forceful geometries. Stirling and Gowan’s Engineering Building represented a shift from the functionalist doctrines of the postwar period.” Photograph: Alamy
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ALFRED DANIELS : Guardian (top)
Lost London Bridge, by Alfred Daniels
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JOHN BUSBY : Guardian , Scotsman (top)
Gannets by John Busby
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NOREEN RICE : Independent (top)
“Her works hang in collections from Tokyo to the United Nations in New York”
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PETER SISAM : Guardian (top)
“In the late 1950s Peter Sisam gave technical and logistical support in making the first all-African colour feature film, Freedom”
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GWILYM PRICHARD : BBC Guardian Wales Online (top)
Above Rhostryfan, oil on canvas, 1982. Photograph: Harry Heuser
INDEPENDENT 22 September 2013
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IVOR ADAMS : Telegraph (top)
Ivor Adams with one of his owl sculptures
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CHARLES BARTLETT : Guardian (top)
Photograph: Emma Mason
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MOIRA BEATY : Guardian (top)
“Moira Beaty signed the Official Secrets Act in 1942 and did not talk about her work at Bletchley Park until the late 1980s. She went on to become a highly regarded artist and teacher”
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DENIS BISHOP : Independent (top)
“A versatile and flexible illustrator, he had extensive hands-on experience gained from working as creative head of several advertising agencies”
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WILLIAM BOWYER : Guardian (top)
The Thames, by William Bowyer
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ROGER CECIL : Guardian (top)
Photograph: Bernard Mitchell
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ROBERT CLATWORTHY : Guardian Telegraph (top)
Robert Clatworthy in 1986 with one of his Horseman and Eagle sculptures. Photograph: Jane Bown
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RON COSTLEY : Guardian (top)
“Ron Costley applied his penmanship to his Christmas cards, which took familiar quotations or poems and transformed them with elegant hand lettering”
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RAY EXWORTH : Guardian (top)
“Since 1975, Ray Exworth’s works have rarely been seen outside Cornwall, his adopted home.” Photograph: Chris Chapman
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CATHERINE FRIED : Guardian (top)
“Catherine Fried went in 1960 to Paris, where she lived in the famous Beat Hotel on the Rive Gauche.” Photograph: The Guardian
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MOIRA GEMMILL : Guardian Telegraph (top)
“Moira Gemmill loved design for its own sake, but also believed that it served a public purpose.” Photograph: Graham Jepson/PA
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SHEILA GIRLING : Guardian Independent Telegraph (top)
Beyond a Dream, 1992, by Sheila Girling. Photograph: Bolton and Quinn
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RIGBY GRAHAM : Guardian Telegraph (top)
Brighton Pier, woodcut, 1988, by Rigby Graham. Courtesy of Goldmark Gallery
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MICHAEL GRAVES : Guardian Independent Telegraph (top)
The Portland Building in Oregon. Photograph: Alamy
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MARTIN HONEYSETT : Independent Telegraph (top)
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JOHN ‘HOPPY’ HOPKINS : Telegraph (top)
John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins in 1968. Photo: Hulton Archive
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JOHN HOPWOOD : Guardian (top)
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ALBERT IRVIN : Guardian Independent Telegraph (top)
Albert Irvin in his studio in 2010. Photograph: Joe Hage/Gimpel Fils
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RON JONES : Guardian (top)
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JACK KNOX : Guardian (top)
Self-portrait, c. 1986
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DOUG LUKE : Independent (top)
“Luke had his work cut out for him when it came to photographing a live alligator and Lady Penelope together”
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SARGY MANN : Guardian Telegraph (top)
“Sargy Mann said that the paintings he did after losing his sight were better than his earlier works.” Photograph: Cadogan Contemporary
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STEVE MILLS : Guardian (top)
Steve Mills, potter and designer of a simple wood-fired kiln. Photograph: Jo Bowden
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RICHARD MORRIS : Guardian (top)
“Richard Morris based his own course on English Gothic architecture around a series of weekly visits to cathedrals and parish churches”
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CAVENDISH MORTON : Independent Telegraph (top)
Morton’s oil painting ‘Estuary View’ (Island Fine Arts)
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ROBIN PAGE : Guardian (top)
Robin Page: Protest Song, 1973, “conceived in response to nuclear testing”
“Ẇ hz hymr nvr rplest sirı̣sṇs az ɖ most rspctbl culčṛl atityd?”
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FELICITY POWELL : Guardian (top)
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NICOLA RUSSELL : Guardian (top)
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KATHARINE TALATI : Guardian (top)
Painting by Katherine Talati of a celestial beauty, 1946
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JANET TURNER : Guardian AJ (top)
The 2000 RIBA Stirling prizewinning Peckham Library by Alsop Architects, with lighting design by Janet Turner. Photograph: Roderick Coyne
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DEREK WALKER : Architects’ Journal Guardian Telegraph (top)
“Derek Walker’s designs for Milton Keynes combined an infrastructure grid with Capability Brown’s pastoral principles.” Photograph: APS/Alamy
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FRITZ WEGNER : Guardian Telegraph (top)
Fritz Wegner’s back cover illustration for André Maurois’s Fattypuffs and Thinifers
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13/02/2018
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