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Artist in oil, watercolour and pastel, and teacher, born and lived in London. For many years he was married to the artist Joan Gilbert, also known as Joan Musker, later to the art critic and historian Ann Kodicek. Gilbert studied at St Martin’s School of Art, 1946–50, teachers including Roland Pitchforth. He became a visiting teacher at four London art schools and was eventually a senior lecturer at Chelsea School of Art. In 1957 Gilbert was chosen as one of Jack Beddington’s Young Artists of Promise, in the book of that title. He was a member of NS, NEAC, Society of Landscape Painters, Contemporary Portrait Society, Small Paintings Group, Nine Elms Group and Chelsea Art Society. His main works were portraits and landscapes. Also showed at RA, RP, RBA, Stephen Bartley Gallery, Langton Gallery and Paris Salon and had eightieth birthday exhibitions at Piers Feetham Gallery and Highgate Fine Art, both 2002, with another, Drawn to Water, at Piers Feetham in 2005.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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