Artists

Harry Everington (1929-2000)

Harry Everington was born near Keighley, Yorkshire, and studied at Leeds College of Art before embarking on a post-graduate painting course at the Slade, London. He undertook his National Service in the RAF, stationed at Wilmslow, and also worked at the Outwood Bound School at Eskdale, which confirmed his passion for mountaineering and the outdoors.

He pursued a teaching career, working initially as a lecturer at Shrewsbury College of Art and then in the mid 1960s, he moved to Swansea College of Art, where he became head of the Fine Art and Architecture department.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Everington became Principal of Dyfed College, however, after resigning from this position, he moved to the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, and, at the age of 60, he enrolled as a student at the Sir Henry Doulton School of Sculpture, Stoke-on-Trent.

After the Doulton School was forced to close in 1993, Everington, together with Rosemary Barnett, established the Frink School of Figurative Art and Sculpture, set up in the name of Elisabeth Frink, who had taught at Doulton.

Everington's work has been collected internationally and he completed numerous national commissions.