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Terry Scales |
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Terry Scales was born in Rotherhithe and has lived
in S E London for most of his life. He was fortunate enough to be a student
at Camberwell School of Art in its finest post-war period and features in the
book on the subject, “Camberwell School of Art, its Students and Teachers” by
Geoff Hassell. In fact early purchasers of his work included Keith Vaughn and
Sir William Coldstream, who had taught him there. After service in the RAF he
was recalled to the art school to teach painting and remained there for over
thirty years. Terry has a formidable
exhibiting history, showing his first work at the age of 16 alongside David
Bromberg in the first Victoria Embankment show of 1949. Since then he has
exhibited continuously at the Royal Academy, London Group, Arts Council of
Great Britain, appearing in various shows with Austin Desmond Fine Art,
Belgrave and Michael Parkin Galleries, Thompson’s and Cadogan Contemporary. In 1996 he appeared in an
interview for the BBC1 film “The River”, and shortly after, began his first
novel “Bermondsey Boys”, published in 1999. A further book, “Visions of
Greenwich Reach”, was published the following year. This sees the artist pay
homage to the working Thames with a selection of his riverscapes and notes
from his diaries. Both of these books can be purchased from the gallery. A major retrospective of
Terry’s work took place in 2003 at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of
London where 70 of his paintings and drawings were on show. Five items of Terry’s work will be included in
the Harlequin Gallery “Art in Britain 1945 to 1985” exhibition that begins on
Sunday 8 May 2005, including the ones below: - |
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