Roland Jarvis
1926 - 2016
Painter and printmaker, born to a French mother and English father, whose early education was in France. He studied at Guildford Technical College, 1945-48, before gaining a place at King's College, London, 1948-51 where he read electrical engineering. Following his National Service, 1951-53, he worked in research engineering. He decided to study art and attended Chelsea School of Art, 1954-56, where his tutors included Ceri Richards and Robert Medley. Awarded a French government scholarship in 1956 he spent three years in Paris, furthering his knowledge at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
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He taught at a variety of schools which include Watford School of Art, Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, Brighton Polytechnic and Kingston College of Art and he showed at a variety of venues. These include the RA, V&A, St. George's Gallery and the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne. His solo exhibitions included an exhibition at the South London Art Gallery in 1972 and a retrospective at Brighton Polytechnic Gallery twenty years later. His work is represented in the GAC, V&A, Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, New York Public Library, the national galleries of Western Australia, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia. A skilled horologist he designed and constructed astronomical clocks and was a Fellow of the British Horological Institute. His daughter is the painter Sophie Mason.
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