School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Charles Bartlett

Born: 1921, UK, England, Lincolnshire, Grimsby

Painter, printmaker and illustrator. Husband of the artist Olwen Jones (b.1945). Studied at Eastbourne School of Art before serving in the Second World War. He then studied at the Royal College of Art, 1946-50, under Malcolm Osborne and Robert Sargent Austin. He worked as a freelance illustrator during the 50s before teaching at Harrow School of Art, 1960-70. He is a Past President of the Royal Watercolour Society, 1987-92, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers since 1961. He lives at Fingringhoe near Colchester with his wife the artist Olwen Jones. A passionate mariner, his boat 'Marguerite' is often used as a mobile studio during his frequent sailings around East Anglia. He produces etchings and watercolours of land and seascapes

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Burnt Moor PR2809 Prints

The Valley PR5108 Prints




 
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