George Chapman 1903 - 1993
George Chapman was born in London and trained at the Slade and the Royal College of Art. His early influences included Sickert and the Euston Road School. However, a visit to the Rhondda in 1953 made a huge impression on him and was to transform his vision of himself as an artist. His subsequent paintings of the industrial valleys saw him achieve great critical and commercial success with sell-out exhibitions on London in the late 1950's and early 1960's. He was awarded the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 1857 and took up permanent residence in Aberaeron, Ceredigion in 1964.
From the late 1960's to the early 1990's Chapman's work became unfashionable, and it was only after his death in 1993 that his reputation underwent a major revival. His paintings of the Rhondda are now regarded as an important record of an industrial landscape and community that has all but disappeared.
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