Malcolm Cudmore
Art was the only thing I was ever any good at at school. However, I chose not to go to art college after A levels and spent a few years failing to become a rock and roll star. Eventually, I went on to study performing arts at Dartington Hall in the mid 1970s and then qualified as a teacher. I returned seriously to art in the late 1990s after a varied career path (including musician, community artist, actor, arts administrator and consultant, sign maker and, finally, professional magician since 1989!). I started with adult evening classes and then a part time Foundation Course at Stafford College. I stayed on to do a two year Fine Art HND (Distinction) and was then asked to be the college's resident Fine Art practitioner and, later, a sessional tutor. I moved to the North West in 2007 when my wife returned to university in Preston to study ceramics full time. Although I still work as an entertainer from time to time, I'm concentrating on my work as an artist - exhibiting where possible and generally trying to promote and sell my work. I live in a tiny hamlet on the Fylde coast and work from there and a studio at The Watermark in Preston.
2002 Stafford College of Art – Foundation Studies (Merit)
2003 Stafford College of Art – HND Fine Art (sponsor’s prize - best work in show)
2003 Stafford Open Exhibition
2003 Joint Show (self and one other artist) – Stafford Library
2004 Stafford College of Art – HND Fine Art (Distinction)
2004 Stafford College of Art – (college prize - Best Fine Art Exhibition)
2004 Stafford Open Exhibition
2004 Group Exhibition – Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire
2004/5 Stoke Open Exhibition
2005 Derby Open Exhibition
2006 Stafford Open Exhibition
2007/8 Watermark Enterprise Centre
2008 Lytham Heritage Centre (L.S.A.A.S. Autumn Exhibition)
2008 PromArt – Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria
2008 Harris Museum & Art Gallery (Preston Open Exhibition)
2009 Fylde Gallery (L.S.A.A.S. Spring Exhibition)
2009 PromArt – Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria
2009 Art and Garden, Mill barn, Preston
2009 Haven Road Gallery (L.S.A.A.S. Summer Exhibition)
2009 UKCPS Open International Exhibition at RBSA, Birmingham (Highly Commended)
2009 Haven Road Gallery (L.S.A.A.S. Life Drawing Group Exhibition)
2009 Lytham Heritage Centre (L.S.A.A.S. Autumn Exhibition)
I am able to teach a variety of academic, technical and conceptual subjects including:
Observational drawing (figure and still-life),
Measured Drawing (Sight-Size & Comparative)
Perspective,
Architectural studies,
Composition,
Value studies,
"Academic" painting skills - underpainting, oil glazing, scumbling etc.
2004/6 Resident Fine Art Practitioner at Stafford College
2006/7 Regular part-time teaching at Stafford College
2009 Sessional Lecturer UCLan (University of Central Lancashire)
2009 & 2010 Demonstrator/workshop leader – Cumberland Pencil Museum
2002 Stafford College of Art – Foundation Studies (Merit)
2003 Stafford College of Art – HND Fine Art (sponsor’s prize - Best Fine Art work in show)
2004 Stafford College of Art – HND Fine Art (Distinction)
2004 Stafford College of Art – (college prize - Best Fine Art exhibition)
Acrylics, Canvas, Coloured Pencil, Drawing, Oils, Pastels, Pencil/Charcoal, Watercolour, Watercolour Pencil
Drawing, Figure, Landscape, Life Drawing, Perspective, Portrait, Skies, Still Life
Lancashire, United Kingdom Mainland