Description
Speedboat
Limited Edition print by John Knapp Fisher.
Edition 57/850
Image 35 x 6 cm
Giclee print on paper 40 x 11 cm
Collect from gallery £120
Including UK delivery £135
John was born in London in 1931. His early years were spent in the Kent countryside. His father Arthur Bedford Knapp-Fisher was Professor of Architecture at the Royal College of Art and he also founded the architectural practice of Knapp-Fisher, Powell and Russell. He was a lifelong draughtsman and watercolourist, and Johnʼs earliest memories are drawing and painting alongside his father. After schooling at St Andrews, Pangbourne and Eastbourne College, Sussex, he studied graphic design and typography at Maidstone College of Art. This was followed by National Service in the Army – the Royal Military Mounted Police.
John first worked as an exhibition designer in London for two years. It was here in 1958 that he began concentrating on painting and exhibiting. He then became the set designer for the Theatre Royal Margate and later the Castle Theatre Farnham. On leaving the theatre, he lived on a sea going boat, mainly in East Anglia, with his wife and painted full time. After five years, the family moved to Carmarthenshire in Wales. In 1967, John opened his studio gallery in Croesgoch on the St Davids peninsula, Pembrokeshire. He has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad – mainly South Africa – and his work is represented in many public and private collections. The former include The National Museum of Wales, The National Library of Wales – Aberystwyth, The Contemporary Art Society of Wales and Tenby Museum.
