Thoughts on Francis
Works of all sorts by Francis reside in our house, reside is too passive a word, they animate and enrich it.
One, a life sized ceramic sculpture depicts the Hewlett's old cat
recumbent upon a cushion; it has such presence that I have often seen
our own and other visiting dogs shy away from it barking and growling.
Every thing which Francis ever made, and he was a most productive and
committed worker, is imbued with an extraordinary realness, not that
photo dependent slick illusionism, so common, but rather something far
more true and profound, empathic and sympathetic.
This was rooted in his astonishing drawing ability. Here the complexity
of forms and volumes in space is abstracted into shape, interval and
flat relationship so rich, so fulsome and alive. Here is true
draughtsmanship a word now corrupted and so often misused.
He was a complex and intelligent artist, too good one suspects for our shallow and silly celebrity culture.
Robert Organ
March 2nd 2012.

Francis
Hewlett RWA
See more on the Current
page.
See also the Hewlett Obituary page.
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Francis Hewlett: Cat on Suitcase

Francis Hewlett: Back Garden with Tree

Francis Hewlett: Flower Border

Francis Hewlett: Ghosts

Francis Hewlett: Wind Flowers
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Sunday 22nd April to 20th May
Francis Hewlett RWA (1930-2012)
Sculpture and Paintings
An exhibition to celebrate the life and work of Francis Hewlett RWA who died on 22nd February 2012.
Francis Hewlett was born in Bristol, and studied at the West of England
College of Art. While at the the Slade School of Art in London he was
awarded a scholarship to study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
After completing his studies at the Slade School he moved to Cornwall
in 1957 where he was Head of Painting at Falmouth School of Art. He
retired in 1981.
His work is in public collections in Newlyn, Bristol, Plymouth,
Southampton, Portsmouth, Belfast, Aberystwyth, Leicester and Duisberg.
His work is in private collections in the UK, Holland, France, Belgium,
USA and Australia.
'Thick Pop' polychrome ceramics from the sixties together with paintings from 1953 onwards.

Francis Hewlett: 1974 Show at Fal School of Art
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