JOSIAH STURGEON (1919 - 2000)

"CADGWITH, CORNWALL"

Oil on board

John Josiah Sturgeon was a practising architect, tutor and demonstrator, working in oils and watercolours. He specialised in working craft of all kinds, at sea and along the shoreline: his particular favourites were fishing boats and sailing barges. Trained at School of Architecture in drawing, painting and visual arts, and studied under a number of eminent artists.

Sturgeon was a member of Wapping Group of Artists, of which he was one-time President. He grew up within sight and sound of ships and shipping in a nautical family environment of tugs, sailing barges, ships, boatbuilding and pilotage. Early years spent afloat, learning from professionals the skills of handling and navigating craft on the tideways and estuary of the once busy London River Thames. Sturgeon gained an intimate knowledge of a wide variety of craft, both coastal and ocean-going. He experienced North and South Atlantic in winter and summer, in peace and war.

He was elected a member of RI in 1961.

Exhibitions: The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), Royal Society of Marine Artists, and other major London exhibitions.

Stock no. MB-MG 606

22 ½" x 18 ½"

57 cm x 47 cm