Ronald Grimshaw (1905–1982) was an artist. He was born in

Oswaldtwistle Oswaldtwistle ( "ozwel twizzel") is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England, southeast of Blackburn, contiguous with Accrington. The town has a rich industrial heritage, being home to James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning j ...

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and trained at the

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, 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

. Some of his students included actor

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, performer

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, sculptor

Geoffrey Clarke Geoffrey Clarke (28 November 1924 – 30 October 2014) was a British sculptor of ecclesiastical art and maker of stained glass. Life and work Clarke was a student of Ronald Grimshaw and attended the Royal College of Art in 1948 after serving ...

, painter Audrey Pilkington and photographer Geoffrey Ireland. His body of work consists of many oil paintings and smaller

gouache Gouache (; ), body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent (usually gum arabic or dextrin), and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Gouach ...

paintings. His style was influenced by

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Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, ...

and

Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

. The oil paintings depict abstract landscapes using

pointillist Pointillism (, ) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" ...

techniques. The gouache paintings depict abstract portraits of faces and dancers. He wrote the novel ''Bitter Harvest'',Bitter Harvest in the late 1930s. He also wrote poetry.

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Paintings by Ronald Grimshaw
British stained glass artists and manufacturers 1905 births 1982 deaths People from Oswaldtwistle {{UK-artist-stub