Garrick Palmer

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Garrick Salisbury Palmer (20 September 1933 – 9 July 2023) was an English painter,

While still at the RA, Palmer began teaching part-time at Winchester School of Art, where he became a full-time tutor in 1962, and in 1966, the head of the Foundation Department.

In 1967, he received his first commission, from the Folio Society, to illustrate Three Stories by Herman Melville, which included Palmer's first full-page illustration to Benito Cereno of the head of Babo, the rebellious slave, on a pike in the market square. The Society commissioned him again in 1971 for The Destruction of the Jews, by Josephus, and in 1974 for Moby Dick, by Melville. Similarly the short-lived Imprint Society in Barre, Massachusetts, commissioned Palmer to illustrate H. M. Tomlinson's The Sea and The Jungle in 1971 and Benito Cereno, by Melville, in 1972. The motif of the head of Babo on a pole returned, reflecting changes in Palmer's artistic style. Palmer also illustrated Ship of Sounds, The Gruffyground Press, 1981 (130 copies), a poem by John Fuller.

Palmer retired from Winchester School of Art in December 1986, thereafter devoting himself full-time to his art. The Old Stile Press, in

From the early 1980s he had a second career as a photographer. Beginning in 1983, he had numerous commissions and exhibitions, including: an exhibition of Orkney & Shetland in The Winchester Gallery, 1983; a grant from Southern Arts for a Portsmouth project in 1985; and a commission to produce photographs of sculptures in Hampshire for the newly formed Hampshire Sculpture Trust in January 1987, followed by its opening exhibition in May 1987 and an exhibition of the prints at the Winchester Gallery in July 1987.

In November 1987, the City of Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery held an exhibition of his photographs, entitled "Portsmouth, A Personal Reflection", which moved to the Havant Museum and Gallery in July 1988. October 1990 saw an "Exhibition of Architectural Photographs" at the Spitfield Gallery, London. Palmer participated in "A Southern Eye" - Six Photographers, at the Winchester Contemporary Art Gallery in September 1996. In April 1997 he exhibited photographs of contemporary sculpture at the New Art Centre, Roche Court.

Hampshire County Council awarded Palmer a three-year grant in 1997 to photograph "Early Churches in Hampshire", a selection of photographs being shown at Winchester Cathedral in 1999. Other exhibitions include: photographs of historic churches and landscapes around the area of Butser shown at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park Centre in August and September 2001; "Photographs of Sculpture" at the Hampshire Sculpture Trust Gallery in Winchester, November–December 2002; "FOREST", an exhibition at the Winchester Gallery plus a Southern Arts Touring Exhibition 2002–2003; photographs at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park Centre in 2004. In February–March 2006, Palmer's show of church interiors, "Places of Worship", was held at Portsmouth Cathedral; in October–November 2006 "At Any Time" was shown at the Winchester Gallery.

In 2001 Palmer was commissioned to document the demolition of the site next to

Personal life and death

While a student at art college Palmer met the young Ellis Leach-Moore, like him a native of Portsmouth. Her study encompassed

Garrick Palmer died in Portsmouth on 9 July 2023, at the age of 89.^[3]

Work in public collections

• Kennet Lock (1977)
  Tate Gallery^[4]
• Circular Forms No. 15 (1972) Reading Museum and Town Hall
• Lazarus Raised from the Dead (1961)
  Towner Gallery
  , Eastbourne
• Winchester Landscape, Southampton City Art Gallery^[5]

Exhibitions – Paintings and engravings

Palmer has shown work at the following exhibitions:

• RAA Summer Exhibition in 1956/57/58/60
• Wildenstein Gallery, London, 1961
• Piccadilly Gallery, 1961
• Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, 1962 and 1967
• Reading Art Gallery (engravings only), 1964
• Ash Barn Gallery,
  Petersfield
  , 1965–66
• Southampton University
  , 1969-1976
• Atelier d'Art, Amsterdam, 1970
• Retrospective, Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery, 1973
• Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, 1975
• "Five Artists", Southampton Art Gallery, 1975
• Yew Tree Gallery, Derbyshire, 1977
• Galerie Ismene, Pyrenees, France, 1978
• "Xylon - International Triennial Exhibition of Wood Engravings", Fribourg, Switzerland, 1979
• Portsmouth/Duisburg Exhibition, Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery, 1980
• the "International Exhibition of Wood Engraving", Hereford Art Gallery, by invitation, 1984
• "Engraving Then and Now", the retrospective 50th exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers, 1988
• Southern Arts Exhibition of contemporary wood engraving, 1989
• Artists Prints, Hill Court Gallery, Abergavenny, Wales, May 1994

References

External links

• http://www.garrickpalmer.co.uk