Orkney, Hoy Sound by Michael Fairclough, NEAC (b. 1940) Original Painting
Size - 13cm x 17 cm. Michael Fairclough RE, NEA b. British landscape printmaker and painter. Michael Fairclough is the son of Wilfred Fairclough, ARCA, Rome Scholar, RE, RWS and Joan Vernon-Cryer, ARCA, RWS. He studied painting at Kingston School of Art under Reginald Brill, Frank Archer and Lionel Bulmer and etching with Wilfred Fairclough.
At Kingston he met Mary Malenoir, RA Schools, Rome Scholar, RE and they later married and worked in Ireland, Rome, Greece and Paris, they continue to work together. Michael Fairclough's work has been recognized by several awards and prizes, among them a Royal Academy of Arts David Murray Award for Landscape 1960; The Rome Scholarship for Printmaking 1964; A Hunting Art Prizes Exhibition prize 1987 and First prize at the Chichester Open Painting Exhibition 1997.
He has taught at Belfast School of Art and West Surrey College of Art and Design. 1995, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (Print Retrospective); 2000, Berkeley Square Gallery, London; 2004, Osborne-Samuel (Berkeley Square) Gallery, London, 2005, Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames; 2006, Artonomy, Truro; 2008, Courcoux and Courcoux, Stockbridge. Selected mixed exhibitions since 1995.
Regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions and the New English Art Club; also New Academy Gallery, London; Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath; Beaux Arts, Bath; 20c and London Contemporary Art Fairs; Solomon Gallery, Dublin;'The British Scene', Mall Galleries, London. 1981 Mural for Farnham Post Office (Department of the Environment). 1981 Post Office Special Issue 5 Stamps, National Trust for Scotland. 1989 National Westminster Bank, "Art of investment". 2004 Five paintings for boardroom of new Meteorological Office, Exeter.
Victoria & Albert Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Oldham Art Gallery, Greenwich Art Gallery, Post Office Headquarters, London, Museum Boymans van Beunegen, Rotterdam, World Bank, South London Art Gallery, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Basildon District Council, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, South East Arts Association, Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Royal Albert Museum, Exeter, Adam Smith Institute, New York Public Library, Inner London Education Authority, Kingston-upon-Thames Borough Council, Wakefield City Art Gallery, European Science Foundation, European Parliament, London School of Economics, Meteorological Office, Exeter, Pilkington Glass, London Borough of Camden and Corporate and private collections in U.