Artist     Ernest Pascoe
Title      The Avon Gorge, Winter
Date      1950's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size       52 x 71cm
Ref          147

Purchased in the 105th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1957

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The Avon Gorge, Winter
Ernest Pascoe DFA (Lond), FRBS, RWA was born in 1922 and died in September 1996.

After serving in the RAF during the war he completed his art training at the Slade School of Art from 1945 to 1948. Pascoe was an outstanding student, winning many prestigious prizes including the Wilson Steer Medal for Painting, the Henry Tonks Prize for Drawing and the Robert Ross Scholarship. At the Slade he benefited from eminent visitors such as Henry Moore, Stanley Spencer and Reg Butler, and particularly from his life long friendship with the Head of Sculpture, Professor Gerrard.

In 1948 Ernest Pascoe was appointed to the staff of the West of England College of Art in Bristol. In 1955 he became Head of Sculpture and Vice Principal. In 1969 the West of England College of Art became a Faculty of the newly formed Bristol Polytechnic. From 1972 until his retirement, he was Head of Fine Art, at what is now the University of the West of England.

In an appreciation of his life as an artist fellow academician Gerry Hicks wrote: The City of Bristol has been enriched by many fine examples of his work. Many well known public and private commissions include carvings of 'The Three Kings' for the Tudor Chapel at Christmas Steps, Heraldic Coats of Arms for the Bristol Royal Infirmary and a remarkable Crucifixion, 'Christ in Glory' for St Augustine, Whitchurch. His work also includes an abundance of carved lettering and restoration work for Bristol churches and the City Museum and Art Gallery. He was a member of the 'Bristol Mummy' - Horemkenesi team and was responsible for the reconstruction of the head.

For a considerable number of years he was central to the management and organisation of the Royal West of England Academy where he was also a Trustee for some years. He exhibited regularly paintings and sculpture including a series of bronze portraits of successive Presidents, such as Lord Methuen, Donald Milner and Bernard Dunstan. He was also commissioned by famous institutions including Madame Tussaud's to produce portraits of renowned International personalities such as President Nixon, Robert Kennedy, King Olaf, Johahn Cruyff, David Frost, Tony Jacklin and many others.

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