Ronald Grimshaw

Ronald Grimshaw (1905–1982)^[1] was an artist. He was born in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire and trained at the Royal College of Art, studying stained glass. He also worked with pottery. He taught at Bolton College of Art and Lancaster School of Art where he worked until his retirement. Many of Grimshaw's talented students went to the Royal College of Art. Some of his students included actor Frankie Vaughan, performer John Waite, sculptor Geoffrey Clarke, painter Audrey Pilkington and photographer Geoffrey Ireland.

His body of work consists of many oil paintings and smaller gouache paintings. His style was influenced by Piet Mondrian, Matisse and Picasso. The oil paintings depict abstract landscapes using pointilist techniques. The gouache paintings depict abstract portraits of faces and dancers.

He wrote the novel Bitter Harvest,^[2] in the late 1930s. He also wrote poetry.

References

↑ "Biography". Ronald Grimshaw. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
↑ Bitter Harvest ISBN 978-1-84753-992-2

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Paintings by Ronald Grimshaw

British and Irish stained glass

British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918)

History

Influences

Artistic movements	Aesthetic Movement Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts Movement Biblia pauperum Cambridge Camden Society Classicism Early Renaissance Exoticism Gothic Revival Oxford Movement Romanticism

Organisations	The Glass House Hogarth Club Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

People

Architectural	John Loughborough Pearson Augustus Pugin George Gilbert Scott Alexander Thomson

Artists	Edward Liddall Armitage Hugh Arnold Alfred E. Child Margaret Chilton Harry Clarke Walter Francis Clokey Charles Edmund Clutterbuck Trena Cox Louis Davis works Rachel de Montmorency Alfred Drury Mabel Esplin Moira Forsyth Wilhelmina Geddes Jane Gray Reginald Hallward works Herbert Hendrie James Humphries Hogan Evie Hone Joan Howson works Marjorie Kemp Charles Eamer Kempe Mary Lowndes William Morris Catherine Amelia O’Brien Karl Parsons works Henry Payne works Lilian Josephine Pocock Patrick Pollen Sarah Purser Ethel Rhind Arnold Wathen Robinson works Arild Rosenkrantz Francis Skeat works Caroline Townshend works Christopher Webb Christopher Whall works Veronica Whall works Thomas Willement William Wilson Paul Woodroffe works Edward Woore works British stained-glass artists Irish stained-glass artists

Critics	John Ruskin

Manufacturers	An Túr Gloine Burlison and Grylls Harry Clarke Clayton and Bell Walter Francis Clokey Daniel Cottier John Hardman & Co. Heaton, Butler and Bayne Hincks and Burnell Lavers, Barraud and Westlake Morris & Co. James Powell and Sons Shrigley and Hunt William Wailes William Warrington

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