ATKINSON, Stuart

1940 - 2023

Stuart Atkinson was born at 39 Dailyhill Lane, Bradford, Yorkshire in 1940, son of Jack Atkinson (21-July 1917-26 April 1978), a motor mechanic, and his wife Alice née Hainsworth (28 May 1914-1992), who married at Bradford in 1939. Stuart developed his love of painting working in the Yorkshire dales. In the late 1960s he moved to Jersey, Channel Islands, and during his 25-year stay, painted prolifically throughout the Islands also painting in France, Germany, and Greece. Exhibiting regularly in Guernsey at the Sula Gallery Salem Chapel, and Coach House Gallery, St Pierre du Bois, St Peter's Port, becoming one of the foremost contemporary Channel Islands artists, his other exhibitions included Rotary Tri-Culture Exhibition in Langres, France and in Hanau, Germany. Stuart married Canda Sherwill in 1989 and they lived in St. Martin’s and in 1995, Stuart and his wife Canda moved to Eyke, Suffolk and, after various exhibitions, had his first Suffolk one-man show in 2001 and exhibited regularly throughout Suffolk and Norfolk including at Aldeburgh Cinema Gallery and the Big Shed Gallery, Iken and for a period he used the barn at Parkside, Lower Ufford as his studio when Lady Packard was in residence. Stuart lived at Eyke for some 20 years but moved to Old Rendlesham, near Woodbridge with his wife, but still taught art at Ufford where he had a studio at The Stables, Lower Road, Ufford. Stuart Atkinson died in 2023 leaving a wife Canda, who is also an artist. Stuart’s work is held in many private collections worldwide as well as in corporate collections including Kleinwort Benson and Bank of Bermuda and his pictures form part of the collection of the Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery in the Channel Islands.

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