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Painter and lecturer, born in Burnley, Lancashire, who attended the College of Arts & Technology there and Manchester Polytechnic. Eventually he occupied a studio in Manchester with “a vast panorama of industrial buildings, stretching out to the distant Pennines”, from which he painted the oil on board Landscape With Bright Cloud, in Royal Over-Seas League Open, 1996. Spencer was on the exhibition committee of Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery, 1987–95, and in 1991 was a visiting lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Commissions included several northern corporate ones and Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museums, Burnley. Group shows included Wykeham Galleries, Stockbridge, 1992; RA Summer Exhibition, 1994; and Northern Colourists, Kentmere House, York, 1995.

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


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