Norman Blamey

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Norman Charles Blamey (1914–2000) was an English painter, noted latterly for his portraits.

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[edit] Life

Blamey was educated at Holloway School, London, and then (1931–1937) at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art (now part of the University of Westminster). He went on to teach at the Polytechnic – interrupted by military service during World War II – moving to the Chelsea School of Art (now the Chelsea College of Art and Design) in 1963. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, and became an Associate in 1970 and an Academician in 1975; from then on he was a Visiting Lecturer at the Academy Schools. In 1948 he married one of his students, Margaret Kelly, and in 1950 had a son, the philosopher and logician Stephen Blamey. In 1998 he was awarded the O.B.E.

[edit] Work

Blamey's style, though varying slightly at different periods, was generally a meticulous realism. He was influenced by Stanley Spencer (1891–1959), as well as by 15th-century Flemish art. The latter part of his career was marked by a series of portrait commissions, and his work can be seen in the Halls of a number of Colleges of the University of Oxford.

[edit] Reading

  • Lynda Checketts Norman Blamey. Norwich: Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art & Design, 1992. ISBN 1872482074

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