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Architect, designer, teacher and painter, born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He took apprenticeship to a decorator, studying at Huddersfield School of Art, where his father Harry taught, then was at Royal College of Art, 1947, under Gilbert Spencer and Ernest Tristram. Taught at Croydon College of Art, then, although he wanted to paint full-time, joined George Wimpey & Company. As the firm’s principal architect he designed several hundred murals worldwide. Was a member of RI and also showed at ROI, RA, at public galleries in Huddersfield and Winchester and in London. As well as large watercolour landscapes and still lifes, Barden in later years was a witty designer of figure pieces. His murals were in flats in Kingston upon Thames, factories in Sheffield and schools in Croydon.

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


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