Henry Cliffe (1919-1983)

Painter, printmaker and teacher, who enrolled in 1946 as a student at the Bath Academy of Art where he was to later teach alongside William Scott, Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost, Bryan Winter, Howard Hodgkin and Adrian Heath.  He was chosen for the British Pavilion at the 1954 Venice Biennale with Ben Nicholson, Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud returning again in 1960 alongside Pasmore and Paolozzi. His first one-man exhibition was at the Redfern Gallery in 1956 and three years later his first one-man print show was held at St. George’s Gallery.