Jack Pender - Artist Info

About Jack Pender

  • Biography

    Jack Pender (1918–1998) was an English artist.

    Pender was born in Mousehole, Cornwall. He started to paint in 1936 and went to the Penzance School of Art in 1938. At the end of the war, he spent a short time in Greece at the Athens School of Art and then the Exeter College of Art 1946-1949 and then to the West of England College of Art, Bristol 1949-50.

    He was a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists* and the Penwith Society of Arts*, and exhibited regularly in St Ives (including at the Sail Loft Gallery), Newlyn, Plymouth and London. His artwork is in several public collections, details of which can be found on the Art UK website.[2]

    His themes are mostly the fishing boats and harbours around Mounts Bay, painted ener...

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