Jack Pender (1918-1998) was a painter and teacher, born in Mousehole, Cornwall, to which he returned to live permanently in 1956. His pictures, usually oil on board, representational but sometimes near-abstract, are mostly concerned with Cornwall’s sea and ships. Pender began painting in 1936, then studied at Penzance School of Art, 1938–9. He was in the Army, 1939–46, from 1945–6 attending Athens School of Art; then had three years at Exeter School of Art under Clifford Fishwick and John Skeaping; and gained his teaching diploma with a year, 1949–50, at Bristol’s West of England College of Art. Taught at Plymouth Art School, 1950–4, and Royal Naval College, 1954–6. Pender showed with the Penwith and Newlyn Societies from late 1940s. His other group show appearances including New Art Centre and Chenil Gallery. Had a solo show at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, in 1963. More recent solo exhibitions included Leon Suddaby Fine Art, Penzance, 1989, and Belgrave Gallery, 1990. Plymouth Art Gallery and United Nations Building in New York hold his work.
Oil on canvas, with linen collage. This relates to ‘Reflections on a Mackerel Morning’, Christies, 22nd October 1997, lot 48, which sold for £2000 hammer.
