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Native painter earns respect he deserves
From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20080118
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Mousehole was the window of Jack Pender's world: "My roots are deep under the granite walls and quays... I find myself tapping a wall and saying to myself, 'you're an old friend'."
He was born in 1918 and died in 1998: a popular man and a popular painter. Incredibly this one-man show at Penlee House, Penzance, is his first major exhibition in a public gallery - three cheers then around Mount's Bay for the long overdue celebration of his art.
As Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch caught the character and the nuances of Fowey in words, Jack Pender did the same for Mousehole in paint. Meeting Jack, ...
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