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Val Archer (born 1946) is a British oil painter and teacher who is known for her meticulously composed still life paintings.

Biography

Archer was born in Northampton where her father was an engineer and her mother was a bookbinder.[1] She studied at the Manchester School of Art from 1964 until 1968 when she entered the Royal College of Art, RCA.[2] At the RCA Archer won the Anstruther Prize for painting in 1970 before graduating the following year.[2] After graduating, Archer undertook several commercial commissions and also held a number of visiting lectureships throughout her career. Her teaching included courses at the Crawford School of Art in Cork and at Cardiff College of Art.[2] She also spent time teaching at the art schools in Chelsea, at Goldsmiths' College, Sheffield and Wolverhampton.[3] Archer's commercial work included a 1982 poster design for British Rail and designs for the BBC Good Food magazine in the early 1990s.[2]

In 1989 Archer had a solo exhibition of flower paintings at the Noortman Gallery in Maastricht.[3] She also had an exhibition in Germany.[2] Archer illustrated and published two books on fruit and flowers, A Basket of Berries in 1992 and A Basket of Apples the following year.[2] Since 1998 Archer has been represented by the Chris Beetles Gallery in London.[4]

References

1. ^{{cite web |author=Prue Leith & John McEwen|url=http://www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-and-antiques/favourite-painting-prue-leith-86159|title=My favourite painting|date=5 May 2016|accessdate=28 March 2018|work=Country Life}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |ISBN=0 953260 95 X}}
3. ^{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |ISBN=1 85149 106 6}}
4. ^{{cite web |author=|url=http://www.chrisbeetles.com/exhibition-artist/51555/15183# |title=The Turn of Women Artists 1837-2018: Archer, Val (Born 1946)|year=2018|accessdate=29 March 2018|work=Chris Beetles Gallery}}

External links

  • {{Art UK bio}}
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8 : 1946 births|Living people|20th-century British painters|20th-century women artists|Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University|Alumni of the Royal College of Art|British illustrators|People from Northampton

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