Borlase smart biography of alberta williams

Borlase Smart studied at Plymouth Art College between and , [ 2 ] and obtained, after a further year's study, a first class honours certificate in teaching from the Royal College of Art in Smart worked as an art editor and critic at the Western Morning News which, while he was there, became the Illustrated Western Weekly News , from to Following this recognition of his abilities he decided to become a professional artist and he gave up his post as a journalist and moved to St Ives , Cornwall in to study seascape painting.

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He became a student at the School of Painting which had been established by Julius Olsson in During the conflict he made charcoal and wash drawings which illustrated the conditions that the soldiers endured at the front and the destruction of towns and villages on the Somme , at Arras and at Ypres. In he met and established a lifelong friendship with Leonard Fuller while they were producing illustrations of the Lewis gun.

With an abundance of energy and enthusiasm, Smart began, in the three decades that followed, to gain a reputation as a fine painter and an organiser and promoter of the St Ives artistic community. He was considered a man of vision and highly regarded within the West Cornwall art community as someone with a readiness to accept and encourage emerging talent.

He exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in London in Borlase Smart published a number of books on the techniques of painting including 'The Technique of Seascape Painting' , published in , and was a key figure, in the final year of his life, in establishing a permanent home for the St Ives Society of Arts in the Mariners' Church.

They had two sons Michael, born in and Brian, born in Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.