Artist and teacher, born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, who studied at Norwich School of Art, 1958–62, with Michael Andrews and Jeffrey Camp. Taught art in various institutions and art schools until 1991, the year he was elected to Norfolk County Council and became lecturer in art history for the University of East Anglia extra-mural board. Baldwin was a member of Norwich Twenty Group from 1962. Showed at Norwich Castle Museum, which holds his work, as does Norwich County Council; also at University of East Anglia; Eastern Open, King’s Lynn Arts Centre; and Norfolk and Norwich Festival; in London and abroad. Solo exhibitions included University of East Anglia, 1970, Halesworth Gallery, 1982, and Swan House Gallery, Beccles, 2000. Baldwin described himself as a painter in oil “working within a modernist approach by means of implied narrative and cryptic symbol.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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