RICHARD SLATER CV 

 

Born in London 1927. Married Mavis, 3 daughters.  

Lives at Landrake near Saltash Cornwall 

 

Education and Training 

1938-43 Educated at Tottenham Grammar School  

1943-45 Hornsey School of Art 

1945-48 National Service 

1950 National Diploma in Design (Illustration) 

1951 Art Teacher’s Diploma  

1954 National Diploma in Design (Painting & Lithography). 

 

Teaching Career 

1951 -- 1960 Secondary Schools in London area 

1957 – 1960 Head of Dept. Shoreditch School 

1958 – 1959 Lecturer in Printmaking – London 

1964 Senior Lecturer 

1970 Principal Lecturer Head of Department 

1973 Moved to Plymouth with the College of St Mark & St John 

Settled in Landrake 

 

1970 – 1980 Art Examiner for the Bachelor of Education Degree with London & Exeter Universities 

 

Exhibitions 

London - Park Lane, Royal Academy, Savage Gallery, London Hilton Gallery, John Whibley Gallery, Touring Show with Arts Council England 

Plymouth Plymouth Arts Centre, The Barbican Gallery, Arlesford Gallery 

 

Commissions 

1960’s Ceramic Mural for London primary school 

Illustrations for Cambridge University Press 

Six Lithographic Editions for Consolidated Fine Art, New York working at the Curwen Gallery London 

 

1980 – 1999 Exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour & at the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries London 

Participated in group shows at Arlesford gallery, galleries in Devon & Cornwall, Mayflower Gallery Tavistock, Turner Gallery Exeter 

Listed in ‘Who’s Who in Art and the ‘Dictionary of British Art since 1945’ 

 

 

Awards & Elections 

1980 1st Prize Drake 400, Plymouth 

1982 1st Prize Becton – Dickinson, Watercolour Open, Plymouth 

1991 1st Prize South West Open Painting Competition, Plymouth 

1992 Awarded RI Medal for ‘Most Outstanding painting by non member’ 

Solo Exhibition Sterts Art Centre Cornwall 

1998 2nd Prize South West Open Painting Competition 

1999 Elected to Membership of Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour 

1999 Elected to Associate Membership of St Ives Society of Artists 

2003 Kingsmead/Rowland Hilder Award at The RI Annual Exhibition 

2004 Elected to Full Member St Ives Society of Artists 

2004 Exhibited in Singer / Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition