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Artist born in Wallasey, Cheshire, who began painting during National Service in the Royal Air Force, then studied at Liverpool College of Art, 1960–4, and Royal College of Art, 1964–7. After working as a teacher, carver and letter-cutter, Large painted full-time from 1983, based in Watchet, Somerset. While at the Royal College Large won a landscape prize, the year after winning a life painting prize at RA. Mixed exhibitions included Piccadilly Gallery, 1967; Eye Gallery, Bristol, 1987; Bruton Street Gallery, from 1991; White Lane Gallery, Plymouth, 1992; and David Holmes Contemporary Art, Peterborough, 1996, where in a St Ives show Large exhibited pictures partly collaged with thick paint, forming blocks of discordant colour. Showed solo with Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, from 1986, later exhibitions including University of Surrey, 1992, and Plumbline Gallery, St Ives, 1995.

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


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