RONALD RUTHERFORD Centre Cliff, Southwold|1979

Ronald Rutherford was born in Banstead in 1913. He went to Estonia at the age of eighteen, and, as well as studying German, spent one day a week in the studio of a Russian artist. It was here that he learnt the rudiments of painting. After returning home he studied at the Architectural Association in London and practiced as an architect in England and then in Rhodesia. He came back to England in 1958, and he retired from architecture in 1973 in order to concentrate on painting. For the next fifteen years he lived in Southwold in Suffolk and painted many scenes of the town. This painting of Centre Cliff, from an off-shore perspective, he never actually witnessed with his own eyes, being amongst his most popular paintings.