Hurst BALMFORD
Born in Huddersfield, the artist studied at Royal College of Art and Julian's Academy in Paris. His address in 1917 is given as Gt Eccleston near Garstang.
He was living at Meadow House, St Ives when he exhibited Boats at Anchor, St Ives at the RA in 1924. Originally he had been an architect, and was proficient on the violin and viola. In the late 1920s he moved to Lancashire to become Headmaster of Morecambe School of Art. By 1938 he was living in Blackpool.
media
Portrait and landscape painter in oils and watercolours
works and access
Works include: Watergate, on the Looe River (in Manchester AG); The Jetty, Polperro (1924); Boats at Anchor, St Ives (1926); The Running Stream; Summer Landscape, oil on canvas, signed (sold 2011 Barnes Thomas, Pz)
Access to work: Manchester Art Gallery
exhibitions
RA 1917, 1937, 1938
STISA
The Beach Studio, St Ives
memberships
STISA c1927 - c1939
references
Barnes Thomas Auction Cat (Feb 2011) p23 (illus)
Benezit
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p312)
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists
Tovey (2000) GF Bradshaw & STISA (Appendix 3 Principal Members of STISA 1927-1960)
Tovey (2003) Creating a Splash
Tovey (2009) St Ives: Social History
Tovey (2010) Sea Change, St Ives 1914-1930
Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1921-1939 list pp 219-21)
The Year's Art