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Mike Pope (1930 - 2013)Show: Profile | Artworks

• Born Dorchester, Dorset, 1930
• Royal Air Force, 1948
• Bournemouth School of Art, 1949-52
• Royal College of Art, London, 1952-55
• Royal College of Art, travelling scholarship in Spain, 1955-56
• Lecturer, London College of Printing, 1962-95
• Founder of the Intensive Drawing Week, London College of Printing, 1971-76
• Member of the London Group, 1970
• Member of the Society of Landscape Painters, 1995
• Chairman – Chelsea Arts Club, 2003-05

Publications

• Introducing Oil Painting, 1964
• Introducing Watercolour Painting, 1969
• Contributor to many others; co-author of a CD-Rom “Secrets of the Artist’s Workshop”, on materials and methods, 1992

One Man Exhibitions

• Canale Galleria, Venice, 1978
• Annexe Gallery, London, 1982
• Galleria Montin, Venice, 1986
• Salisbury Playhouse Gallery, Salisbury, 1987
• Foreign Press Association, London, 1988
• Argile Gallery, London, 1989
• Hampstead Theatre, London, 1990
• Chelsea Arts Club, London, 1991
• The Tall House Gallery, London, 1992
• Universidad Politechnica, Valencia, Spain, 1993
• Eckersley Gallery, London, 1994
• Ecole des Métiers de l’Image, Paris, 1994
• European Parliament, Strasbourg, 1994
• Chelsea Arts Club, London, 1994
• London Institute Gallery 1995
• Foreign Press Association, London, 1996
• Eckersley Gallery, London, 1996
• Christchurch Gallery, Canterbury, 1997
• London Institute Gallery 1998
• London College of Fashion Gallery, 1998
• Chelsea Arts Club, London, 2000
• Piers Feetham Gallery, London, 2001
• Piers Feetham Gallery, London, 2003
• Chappel Galleries, Essex, 2004
• London Institute Gallery 2005
• Piers Feetham Gallery, London, 2005
• Chelsea Arts Club, London, 2005
• Piers Feetham Gallery, London, 2007
• Piers Feetham Gallery, London, 2009
• Chelsea Arts Club, London, 2010
• Piers Feetham Gallery, London, 2012

Mike was a regular contributor to the London Group, Royal Academy, Society of Landscape Painters and Small Paintings Group.


Michael John Pope, 11 June 1930 – 23 December 2013

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