Versatile artist and lecturer, born in London, who studied graphic design at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts and painting and drawing as a part-time student at Goldsmiths’ College. He was a graphic designer until 1965, then concentrated on his own work. Campbell was a visiting lecturer in enamelling at London University’s Institute of Education, his own ambitious, multi-fired enamels being notable for their rich, lustrous finish. In 1971 he moved to Eye, Suffolk, with his wife and son, remaining until his death. Campbell’s work had many inspirations: the seasons of the Suffolk countryside, which he walked with his dogs, and its past; areas such as Ireland, France and Wales; a considerable library; the country writer George Ewart Evans, “whose books have taught me that history is not only made of great events but also of the life and work of ordinary men and women”; mythology, old age and youth; and the output of artists such as Piero della Francesca, Pierre Bonnard, Ivon Hitchens and his friend, David Jones.

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


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