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 Jeffery Bernard Camp (born 1923)
Born at Oulton Broad, Suffolk on 17 April 1923, only child of George Bernard Camp, a cabinet maker and antique dealer, and his wife Caroline Flogdell Hase née Denny, who married in 1921. He studied at Lowestoft, Suffolk and Ipswich School of Art and at Edinburgh College of Art 1941-1944, under landscape artist William Gillies. Awarded an Andrew Grant Traveling Scholarship in 1944 and 1945, and a David Murray Bursary for landscape painting in 1946 when he returned to Suffolk.
Camp went on to teach at Chelsea School of Art from 1960 to 1961 and at the Slade School of Art from 1963 to 1988. He married in Suffolk in 1963, Laetitia K Yhap (born 1941) when they went to live at Hastings, Sussex where he and his wife both painted. He separated from his wife and moved to a studio at Clapham Common before moving to Stockwell, South London but continued to go to the South Coast to continue painting the local scenery.
Elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1974 and a member ten years later and exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in 1959, 1961 and 1963. Subsequent solo shows were held at New Art Centre, London (1968), a retrospective at the South London Art Gallery (1973), Serpentine Gallery (1978), Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (1986 and 1990) and several shows from 1984 with Browse & Darby, London.
Author of several books including Draw: How to Master the Art (1981) and Paint (1986) and his Almanac by Jeffery Camp RA (Royal Academy in association with Art Space Gallery 2010)
Information provided by Tony Copsey, researcher of artists in Suffolk County, England. |
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