Nationality British Role Artist Name Jack Pender | Known for Painting Education Penzance School of Art Died 1998 | |
Born 1918 Mousehole, Cornwall | ||
Jack Pender (1918–1998) was an English artist.
Pender was born in Mousehole, Cornwall. He started to paint in 1936 and went to the Penzance School of Art in 1938. At the end of the war, he spent a short time in Greece at the Athens School of Art and then the Exeter College of Art. He was a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and the Penwith Society of Arts, and exhibited regularly in St Ives (including at the Sail Loft Gallery), Plymouth and London. His artwork is in several public collections, details of which can be found on the Art UK website.
He was remembered alongside artists Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and Tony O’Malley in Margo Maeckelberghe's obituary.
He is survived by his daughter, the artist Tamsin Pender, and son Robin Pender.
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