Description

A charming signed woodcut print of Glastonbury Tor by Peter Reddick. Artwork 12cm x 8cm

Framed and glazed. Born in Essex in 1924, Reddick went to the Royal Liberty school in Romford and was studying at South East Essex Technical College in Barking (now part of the University of East London) when the second world war broke out. He was a Quaker and did not undertake military service. From 1947 to 1951, he studied at the Guildford and Cardiff schools of art and at the Slade in London, and spent a year (1959-60) studying at the London School of Printing. He taught lettering, typography and lithography at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) in London (1951-57), and in the 60s taught in Ghana, at Glasgow School of Art and at Bristol Polytechnic (now the University of the West of England), where he was senior lecturer in illustration. He illustrated more than 50 books in total. He was a member of the Royal West of England Academy, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the Society of Wood Engravers. In the mid-90s he was a driving force behind the creation of Bristol’s Spike Island art space, in a former Brooke Bond tea packing warehouse, which set a model for other arts groups in the city.