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Charles Simpson
This exhibition celebrated the distinguished career of Penzance-based painter Charles Walter Simpson, whose many books and magazine illustrations brought him extensive acclaim. Born in Surrey, Simpson turned to painting when a riding accident prevented him from following a military career. He was particularly drawn to painting horses, a skill he developed while studying at the School of Painting in Bushey under the animal painter Lucy Kemp-Welch, and by working with Alfred Munnings in Norfolk in the early 1900s; it was Munnings who encouraged him to visit Cornwall. In 1913 Simpson married fellow artist Ruth Alison and moved to Newlyn, later residing in Lamorna and then London before settling permanently in Penzance. Best known for his paintings of birds and animals, this show, which was accompanied by a biography of the artist by John Branfield (Sansom & Co.), included both familiar and unusual examples of his work, from public and private collections.
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