SAVAGE, Jack

1910 - 2003

Frederick John Savage, but known as Jack Savage, was born at 5 Guildford Terrace, Hendon, North London on 12 May 1910, son of Frederick David Savage (31 August 1876-1 December 1943), an electrical carriage lifter, and his wife Ellen Elizabeth née Telling (1874-18 February 1933), who married at Hampstead, London in 1901. Jack studied at the Willesden College of Art before joining a printing firm in the City of London. He married at Hendon in 1936, Margaret Frances Setter (27 June 1902-1983) and in 1939, a commercial artist living with his wife at 66 Audley Road, Hendon, Middlesex. In 1940 he enrolled in the Royal Artillery, serving in North Africa and Italy, and after the war, established his own Commercial Art and Photography studio specialising in advertising and corporate design for the pharmaceutical/medical industry. In 1970 he retired to Pakefield, just outside Lowestoft, Suffolk and took up painting full time, focusing on local fishermen, the coastline and surrounding countryside. Jack was actively involved with the local artistic community, setting up the Oulton Broad Art Circle and contributing to the Lowestoft Art Group and Southwold Art Circle and was a member of the Langham Sketching Club (now known as the London Sketch Club), sometimes signing his works F. J. Savage. Amongst his best works are his dynamic, small-scale oils of Lowestoft fishermen which convey a deep sense of movement and a vivid depiction of the sea, and he exhibited extensively throughout his lifetime including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries, London, and the City of London Guildhall Exhibitions and elsewhere. Frederick John Savage died at Great Yarmouth Hospital on 18 November 2003.

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