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Clive CARTER (1941-2006) Workings of a Cornish Mine Pumping House Pen and watercolour, signed and dated 1985, 75cm x 55cm, 83cm x 63cm framed. Clive Carter (1941 - 2006) was born into a family of Cornish miners and engineers. Having studied at Redruth, Penzance and Falmouth Art Schools he initially earned his living working at Holman’s in Camborne, and then on a freelance basis, allowing him more time for his painting. Throughout his life he continued to take his inspiration from Cornwall’s industrial past and present – ships, mine-works, buildings and machinery. He painted demolition crews, miners, fishermen and dockers, in his own vigorous and vivid style. He was also an author of several books on the local history and industry of Cornwall. His paintings show a very different Cornwall from his contemporaries, avoiding picture-postcard views or intellectual abstraction. Informed by his ever-growing knowledge of local history, particularly of wrecks and mines and his preference for being out in stormy, cloudy weather, his work matured as he absorbed the wealth of subjects around him in West Penwith where he and his family lived. Helston Folk Museum hold a part of his collection.
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