Artist     Henry Cliffe
Title      Night Terrace
Date      1979
object   Painting
Media   oil
Size      71 x 101.5cm
Ref         637

Purchased in the 127th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1979

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Night Terrace
Henry Cliffe was born in 1919 at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and at a young age would pack his art gear into a rucksack and head off on to the moors to draw and paint. Cliffe studied at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Wiltshire. where he later ran the lithography studio for more than thirty years until he retired in 1981, shortly before the Corsham site was closed down and the Academy workshops moved to Sion Hill, Bath. Always a regular exhibitor in international print exhibitions, he was one of five artists whose work was shown in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1960.

Cliffe's early works arose from his interest in Surrealism and the English landscape school of the 1940s. During the 1950s Cliffe's work moved away from it's earlier influences and developed into a strong interest upon the relationship between the human figure and the landscape. As a result, in 1959 The Metamorphoses Suite of lithographs based around this approach was published by the St George's Gallery in London. He died in 1983.

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