Biography
Francis Hewlett (b. Bristol, UK 1930 - d. Falmouth, Cornwall 2012) studied painting and etching at the West of England College of Art, 1948–52; was at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1953 and studied at Slade School of Fine Art, 1953–5. He worked for a time with William Coldstream and Claude Rogers. He was head of painting at Falmouth School of Art, 1960–81, settling in the Cornish town after moving to the county in 1957. In 1977 Hewlett was Gregynog Arts Fellow, University of Wales, in Newtown. Hewlett worked in ceramics, mainly large-scale sculpture, 1968–75, then from 1981 concentrated on pictures of the Bristol Empire theatre, based on much earlier drawings. The colourful, evocative pictures were shown at Browse & Darby in 1993. He has a solo exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery in 2000. Hewlett showed at the RA, RWA of which he was a member and at Newlyn Orion Gallery and in 1992 was included in Artists from Cornwall at RWA.
