Sculptor, potter and teacher who studied at Gloucester and Cheltenham Colleges of Art. He became head of painting at the Gloucestershire College of Art in Cheltenham, where he lived, in 1964 converting Barratts Mill into a studio, helped by his assistant Miss D G Sutton. Braisby showed at Royal Society of Arts, RWA, the 1951 Festival of Britain, was a prizewinner at the International Eisteddfod in Wales in 1952 and in 1962 was included in 19 Young Sculptors at Hillfield Gardens, Gloucester. Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums holds Braisby’s clay figure of a potter, of about 1950.

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


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