Richard Slater (b.1927)
Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker, collagist, illustrator and teacher, born in London, who attended Hornsey School of Art, 1944–51, part-time 1951–4. After nine years teaching art in Dagenham and London Schools, and printmaking at the Working Men’s College, he was appointed to the College of St Mark and St John, 1960, transferring with it from Chelsea to Plymouth in 1973, retiring as head of department in 1980 to paint full-time. During the 1960s, Slater did book illustrations for Cambridge University Press; made several lithographic editions at Curwen Press for Consolidated Fine Arts, New York; and completed mural and ceramic mural commissions. A romantic, dreamlike quality pervaded much of Slater’s work, which often involved figures in landscape.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
