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The following biography is from the website of the Bristol Savages*, a Bristol, England art association founded in 1904 and still active:
Jack Chalker was born on the 10th October, 1918. He studied art at
Goldsmiths’ from 1936 to 1939. With the outbreak of war he was called up
becoming a gunner in the Royal Artillery. In 1942 he was captured
during the fall of Singapore. He spent the next three years as a
Japanese prisoner of war in Singapore and in the Thailand-Burma Railway
camps. During this time, in furtive secrecy, he made diary notes,
sketches and paintings recording life and conditions around him, using
whatever materials he could scrounge. He also worked beside the renowned
Australian surgeon “Weary” Dunlop, a fellow prisoner, documenting the
ravages of disease, wounds and starvation as well as ingenious medical
equipment fabricated in the camps. Many of his sketches are now at the
Imperial War Museum in London.
After the war he continued his studies at
the Royal College of Art. Later he came to Bristol and became the
Principal of the West of England College of Art. In 1959 he became an
Artist Member of the Bristol Savages.
A painter and book illustrator, he
continued his work as a surgical and medical illustrator eventually
being elected a Fellow of the Society of Medical Artists of Great
Britain. It was in this capacity, as a surgical illustrator, that he
worked with Bro. Sav. Bob Horton, then Consultant Surgeon at Bristol. He
exhibited at the Bristol Savage Annual Exhibitions in the early
sixties, and also at the RBA, RWA, and RP. He also had one-man shows at
the Dixon Gallery London, and the RWA.
He now lives near Wells in
Somerset. (R.S.B)
Source:
http://www.bristol-savages.org/past-artists/26.html
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