Philip Bawcombe
Philip William Bawcombe,
Education
Bawcombe was born in London in 1906. He attended the Choir School of
A career in industrial and set design
Bawcombe was apprenticed to a firm of shopfitters before joining the design department of a London firm of interior decorators. He afterwards became a senior designer for ocean liner decorators.
From 1930 Bawcombe applied his skills to film sets joining the industrial art department of
Bawcombe was elected a
War artist
Bawcombe went out to Southern Africa, first to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and then South Africa just prior to the outbreak of World War II. He enlisted with the South African forces, serving initially in the Middle East where he was commissioned as second in command of a camouflage unit. He was responsible for designing dummy tanks constructed on the backs of military lorries as a decoy.[3]
From 1941 to 1945 Bawcombe covered the
Later career
Bawcombe returned to South Africa after the war, working as painter and industrial designer. He served a term as president of the
Back in South Africa from 1968, art works for two books illustrating the historical townscapes of
Selected filmography
- John Halifax (1938)
References
- ^ Bawcombe & Scannell. 1976. Philip Bawcombe’s Kimberley. Johannesburg: Village Publishing.
- ^ Bawcombe & Scannell. 1976. Philip Bawcombe’s Kimberley. Johannesburg: Village Publishing.
- ^ Bawcombe & Scannell. 1976. Philip Bawcombe’s Kimberley. Johannesburg: Village Publishing.
- ^ Bawcombe & Scannell. 1976. Philip Bawcombe’s Kimberley. Johannesburg: Village Publishing.
- ^ H.F. Oppenheimer, Foreword in Bawcombe & Scannell. 1976. Philip Bawcombe’s Kimberley. Johannesburg: Village Publishing.