George Chapman - Church and Houses. Swansea |
Oil on board. c1958.
This painting is part of Chapman’s peripheral vision series where figures in the foreground are painted as if they were being glimpsed at the edge of one’s vision.
George Chapman, 1908-1993, born in London, studied at Royal College of Art and Slade School of Art. After this he moved to Great Bardfield in Essex but found little to inspire him until his first visit to Wales in the 1950s. His love affair with the soulful landscape and communities of the Welsh valleys saw him eventually move across the border in 1960 (shortly after winning the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod in 1957). Influenced by Sickert and the Euston Road School of painters, he was the subject of a BBC Monitor programme in 1961. His work is held in many public collections including the V&A Museum. |
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