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| Eric Rimmington | |
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| Born | 1926 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 2024, age 98 |
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| Alma mater | Slade School of Fine Art |
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Background
Eric Rimmington was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. His father was naval engine room artificer Charlie Rimmington, and his mother was seamstress Mabel Bowman. He was educated at Southern Secondary School for Boys and Southern Art College. However, before he could complete his studies, he was recruited into the military during the Second World War, serving in the Far East. After the war, he completed his studies, and earned a fine art diploma in 1952 at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Rimmington married Margaret McVey in 1947 and they had a daughter, but the marriage failed in the 1960s or 1970s. While working at Wolverhampton he formed a partnership with Mary Michaels, a history of art teacher at the same establishment, and they married in 1994.
Career
Rimmington was a still life artist, and a draughtsman who used graphite and pencil. Art critic William Packer said that he was, "one of our most distinguished exponents of still life".
While continuing with his own painting, Rimmington was employed as an art teacher. He taught at Scarborough College of Art between 1952 and 1958, and at Bradford College of Art from 1958 to 1966. He was a senior lecturer in art between 1966 and 1969 at Birmingham College of Art and Design. He was then hired at Wolverhampton Polytechnic as senior course tutor and principal lecturer between 1969 and 1982. Around 1982–1983, he taught for a year at the University of Wisconsin–Stout in the United States. Mary Michaels said tha, "Eric found an atmosphere refreshingly free of the prescriptive attitudes that dominated the British art world". He returned to Worcester and then Hackney, and proceeded to work as a still life artist.
Exhibitions
Over thirty years from the 1980s, Rimmington contributed to a large number of group exhibitions, and had thirty exhibitions of his own work. He exhibited at the Millinery Works, Islington, the Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, and the Mercury Gallery, Cork Street, London.
Collections
Rimmington's works are held in a number of public collections, including the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Imperial War Museum and Bradford City Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Reading Museum and Art Gallery, University of Leeds, Scarborough Art Gallery and the ING Collection; Museum of London.
Notes
- Eric Rimmington (1926–2024). GRO index: Births Sep 1926 Rimmington Eric O. Bowman Portsmouth 2b 608.
References
- ^ Michaels, Mary (8 December 2024). "Eric Rimmington obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
- "Rimmington, Eric". radnorshire-fine-arts.co.uk. Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd. Retrieved 9 December 2024.