Pencil Sketch Pics Biography
source(google.com.pk)1911 - Born July 9th in the hill town of Kuling , Kiang-Hsi Province, China . The nearby mountain overlooking the plains of Ho was an inspiration for his novels. The younger son of Congregationalist missionary parents, most of his childhood was spent in Tientsin (Tianjin) south east of Peking ( Beijing ).
Read more about Mervyn Peake's in China.
1914 - His first visit to England, where he stayed with relations at Poole, Dorset. During his twelve years in China he attended the Tientsin Grammar School
1923 - Moves back to England and lives at Wallington, in Surrey, where his father sets up a medical practice. Attended the then School for the Sons of Missionaries, now Eltham Collegiate School.
1929 - Left Eltham and briefly went to study at the Croydon School of Art before enrolling at the Royal Academy in December that year.
1931 - Has one of his paintings chosen for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
1932 - Designs costumes used for The Insect Play
1933 Following advice from one of his teachers at Eltham, decides to move to Sark in the Channel Islands where he lives for the next two years.
1935 - Moves back to London having exhibited his work on several occasions with The Sark Group, at galleries in London and in Paris. Begins teaching at the Westminster School of Art.
1936 - Meets Maeve Gilmore on her very first day at the art school.
1937 - Marries at St James’s, Spanish Place Central London, on 1st December
1938 - Has his first one-man show at the Calmann Gallery in London
1939 - His first book Captain Slaughterboard is published by Country Life
1940 - Moves from London to Sussex where School House is rented in the village of Warningcamp , near Arundel, in Sussex . His first child Sebastian is born. Begins writing Titus Groan and joins the Royal Artillery. In December Ride a Cock-Horse and other Nursery Rhymes is published.
1942 - Second son Fabian is born. Receives special dispensation from his commanding officer to continue writing his novel. Given the job of painting For Officers Only on the doors of portable wooden lavatories.
1942 - Leaves the Army
1945 - Visits Germany as war artist, commissioned by The Leader magazine and enters the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in June. Gathers ideas for a future collection of poems, and produces several drawings of the dying inmates.
1946 - Titus Groan is published by Eyre & Spottiswoode the manuscript having been read by Graham Greene who recommends it to the publisher who reads it over the weekend and immediately decides to publish.
1946 - The Peake family moves to Le Chalet in Sark , renting the large house from a local farmer. The previous occupant had been the commanding officer of the German occupation force.
1949 - Daughter Clare is born at the Le Chalet attended at the birth by Sister Kilfoyle, known to Mervyn as Sister Tinfoil. She, the nurse, is not amused.
1950 - Gormenghast is published to very good reviews.
1951 - Wins the Heinemann Prize for Literature for Gormenghast and The Glassblowers and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
1952 - Moves back to Wallington his childhood home.
1956 - Titus Groan adapted for BBC radio
1957 - The Wit to Woo performed at the Arts Theatre in London
1959 - Titus Alone published
1968 - Dies November 17th at a carehome run by his brother in law, at Burcot, near Oxford . He is buried in the churchyard of the 11th century St Mary the Virgin, at Burpham, near Arundel, together with his wife. In nearby graves lie his paternal grandparents, and together in another grave, his brother and sister in law
The Peake Family
Maeve Gilmore
1918 – 1983
The youngest of six, Maeve, like Mervyn, had a medical doctor for a father and was brought up at a large house in Acre Lane , Brixton, South London , where her father had his practice. So-called, as at the time all the houses were surrounded by an acre of land, the family later moved across the river to Chelsea Square from where after convent boarding school at St Leonards on Sea, Sussex, she attended a finishing school in Switzerland . Here she learnt to speak fluent German and French and became a good pianist; her favourite music being that of Johann Sebastian Bach whose piano pieces would resound around the many houses she lived in after marrying Mervyn Peake. A fine painter and sculptor in her own right she also wrote several short stories, and had numerous one-woman exhibitions in London before dedicating her life to the well-being and support of her husband, following the onset of his illnesses. She would paint every day in her studio where the cat would sit watching as the canvases developed into works of art which, following her husband’s death in 1968, often emitted a powerful sense of injustice. Her memoir, A World Away, is often cited as one of the most poignant insights into marriage, life, and the joie de vivre of early life with a genius ever written, and remains in print decades after first being published.
Children
Sebastian Peake, born in 1940, has worked in various branches of the wine trade for most of his life, although after leaving school he studied foreign languages for five years while travelling around different European countries. He studied drums for a year in the late 1950s with the then leading modern jazz drummer in the country, and visited the wonderful annual Antibes Jazz Festival in 1963 where, during a break in the performance, he managed to persuade Miles Davis to join him and his Swedish girlfriend in a bottle of Provence rosé. In 1964 he was the drummer in the trio whose pianist came second in the National Young Pianist of the Year competition - the award being presented by Dave Brubeck, who gave a warm, encouraging speech. Jazz remains a lifelong love of his, but a penchant for the great wines of Bordeaux runs neck and neck. The promoting of his father’s work really accelerated after his mother’s death in 1983 when, in the first of what are now regular speaking events, he addressed the English faculty at the University of Krakow. Since then he has been speaking at literary festivals, bookshops, private gatherings, schools and universities both at home and abroad.
Fabian Peake is a painter and poet. He has had several collection of his poems published and held many one-man exhibitions both in Britain and abroad displaying his highly evocative and original painting. He taught at the fine art department of Manchester Metropolitan University for over thirty years where he was a popular and admired senior lecturer.
Clare Penate, Mervyn and Maeve’s daughter can technically call herself Sarkese having been born on the island and is one of a very small number of people who
could actually purchase property on the island. She has recently completed a work on her parents life together as seen from her perspective given that she is much younger than her brothers. Mother of the singing star Jack Penate, she plays an active part in the promotion of her father’s work.
1947 Born Derby, England.
1964-1966 Derby Art College.
1966-1969 Chelsea School of Art, London. Graphic Design Degree (BA hons) in printmaking, illustration and typography.
1969-1971 Leverhulm Travel Scholarship to USA (6 months) Musician/recording artist working with Kevin Coyne and band 'Siren' recording on John Peel's 'Dandelion Records' label producing singles and three albums.
1972-1978 Living in Gloucestershire. Exhibiting pencil drawings in London at Treadwell Gallery, Thumb Gallery and Fischer Fine Art. 'THE CEPHALOPHONES' - A series of pencil drawings exhibited internationally with works by Picasso, Magritte, Brancusi and Duchamp.
1979-1983 Colour drawings exhibited in London and New York by Treadwell Gallery. Also international art shows and fairs in Europe. One man show at Del Naviglio Gallery, Milan. National touring show of 'THE ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS' in 1980-81 followed by lecture tour of art shcools. Teaching part time at Winchester and Croydon Art schools.
1984-1990 Private sales of work in UK and overseas. Commissioned to design COMMONWEALTH GAMES STAMPS for the Royal Mail. Major retrospective exhibition 'TAKING STOCK' at Newport Museum and Art Gallery in Wales in 1986.
1991-1995 Group shows throughout Britain including Jill George Gallery in London. Exhibition of literary portraits at Cheltenham Literary Festival. One-man show at The Alma Gallery, Bristol. Large painting and mixed media project entitled MODERN TIMES with a national touring exhibition including Herbert Art Gallery in Covenrtry and Newport Museum in Wales. Guest exhibitor and lecturer at 'Modern Times' symposium at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
1996 Living and working in Bath. Exhibition, 'CANADIAN VISTAS', at the Rooksmoor Gallery, inspired by travelling in Canada. Working on a series of pictures with the theme "Shoes" Joined Portal Gallery, Bond Street, London.
1997 'BETWEEN SHADOWS' - A one-man show at Portal Gallery, London. Work held in stock and shown continuously at Portal Gallery
1998 '50 FACES OF CONTEMPORARY ART' - Self portrait exhibition at 6 Chapel Row Gallery, Bath with works by Lucien Freud, Peter Blake, R.B. Kitaj, Tom Phillips etc. Portrait of Ken Loach, film director, purchased by the National Protrait Gallery, London. Opened own Gallery at 5 London Street, Walcot, Bath BA1 5BU and began to publish own work as limited edition prints.
1999 'BLUES AND SHOES'- A one man show of paintings and drawings featuring a series of vintage electric guitars, at own gallery in Bath. Portrait of William Shakespeare commissioned by Birmingham Reportory Theatre for their new 'Millenium Shakespeare Season'. 'SHADOW PLAY' - A one-man exhibition to launch 11 new limited edition prints at Nick Cudworth Artworks Gallery, Bath.
2000 Work included in Erik Satie Exhibition in Osaka, Bilbao and Cologne. 'PAST PRESENCE' - A one-man show at Portal Gallery, London. Painting of Shakespeare Head published as limited edition print by Marcel Publications and exhibited in travelling show by the Fine Art Trade Guild. Mixed exhibition at 'The Cornelius Gallery' Ross on Wye. ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION portrait of JOHN PEEL OBE. 'THE GUITARS' series at Frankfurt Art Fair.
2001 Stroud Museum in the Park acquire 'MODERN TIMES' for permanent display. Shakespeare portrait used as centrepiece for Shakespeare Festival at Bath Royal Theatre.
2002 'SHADOWS ON REFLECTION' - A one-man show of paintings and pastels at Portal Gallery, London. Work in JAMES JOYCE touring exhibition.
2003 Feb - March HEARTWORKS at 6, Chapel Row Gallery, Bath. March - April New Pastels at Portland Gallery, Piccadilly, London. July - SOCIETY FOR ART OF IMAGINATION TOURING SHOW, London, Glasgow, New York, Florida (PRIZE WINNER) Sept. - Dec. FROM DUSK TO DAWN. Continuous show of landscape paintings at 5, London Street Gallery, Bath.
2004 Pastels and oils in Mixed Show at LORING GALLERY USA Pastel “THE OLD MASTER CLASS” at HOLBURNE MUSEUM, Bath.
2005 ELEVATIONS AND REVELATIONS One-man show at PORTAL GALLERY, Piccadilly, London.
2006 R.W.A ACADEMY , Autumn Show - Bristol HOLBURNE MUSEUM, CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT SHOW - Bath 6 CHAPEL ROW, Mixed Show, - Bath
2007 June - New York Art Fair June to September - Loring Gallery, Mass. USA October - Dyrham Park. One man show - "Going Dutch". October to December - RWA Academy Show, Bristol.
2008 Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institute - One Man Show, prints and pastels. Bayart Gallery, Cardiff - Mixed Drawing Show. Dyrham Park House, Gloucestershire - One Man Show, prints and pastels.
2009 KOWALSKI GALLERY London - mixed show
JOHN THOMPSON GALLERY Aldeburgh, Suffolk - Summer Show
DYRHAM PARK National Trust House. One Man Summer show
R.U.H. Art for Life Charity Exhibition, mixed show
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY. Botanical Works Summer Show
2010 April-July: Dyrham Park - English Stiles. One Man Show.
Summer: Inspired - Mixed exhibition of Bath Landscapes at the Bath Gallery
September: The Bath Prize - Chair of prize winners judges
October: Self Portrait Show - Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath
2011 May-June : Still Life in Rock and Roll: Major one-man show - Octagon Gallery, Bath.
2012 NINE WHITE HORSES; January. Sell out one man show Nick Cudworth Gallery.
ELEVATIONS AND REVELATIONS February – October. one man show Giclee Prints. Royal United Hospital .
MIXED SUMMER SHOW – June – September - The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle on Tyne
STILL LIFE IN ROCK AND ROLL – September – Museum in the Park, Stroud. Glos.
BATH LANDSCAPES – November ongoing. The Loft, Bartlett St, Bath
RE-RELEASE OF ALL ARCHIVAL SIREN RECORDINGS WITH BIOGRAPHICAL TEXT –December - Cherry Red Records
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