Artist Info
E. Blampied
Born in Jersey, the Channel Islands, Blampied won a scholarship to study at Lambeth Art School at age 16. He learnt etching witjh Walter Seymour at the LCC School of Photo-engraving and Lithography at Bolt Court. From 1911 he worked as an independent artist undertaking commissions for 'The Sketch', 'The Sphere' and 'The Graphic' , as well as some book illustration. During the First World War he returnrd to Jersey to fight in the island militia. After the war his early etchings were shown at the first and highly influential 'Modern Masters of Etching' exhibition at the Leicester Galleries of Ernest Brown & Phillips in 1915 which led to a contract with the gallery to publish his prints. He held his first exhibition of etchings and drypoints at Leicester Galleries in 1919 and was elected to the Royal Society of Painters Etchers and Engravers in 1920 . In the same year he took evening classes with A.C.Hartrick at the Central School . The Central School submitted two of Blampied's lithographs to the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925. He was one of the 12 students to recive a gold medal. He worked extenively for magazines and as a book illustrator throughout his life. He returned to Jersey in 1939 where he remained until his death.
