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Miles Balmford Sharp

Miles Balmford Sharp Artist 1897-1973 Born in Bridgehouse, Yorkshire Studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts he was a painter in Oil paint and Water-colour focusing mainly on landscapes and architecture. alongside his painting practice Sharp was also a keen etcher, engraver and Lithograph artist.

Sharp exhibited widely including exhibiting works at the Royal Academy, London, England. Royal West of England Academy and Birmingham Society of Artists

on May 14th to June 12th, 1937 Sharp had a large scale exhibition at The Foyles Gallery Charing Cross Road, London, England Titled English Landscapes, an exhibiiton of oil paintings and engravings of English landscapes including forty seven oil paintings, and ten etchings and line engravings.

The works often depiced his surroungings in Nuneaton England with this exhibition containing works depicting George Eliot's birth place, and hospitals and rural settings in and around Warwickshire

these local scenes where painted later in his Carreer when he took up a posiiton as Principal of the Nuneaton Art School between 1925-1952.

Some of the water colours made during this period where exhibited in Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery in the exhibition Moments in time just one of the many museum in warwickshire see List of museums in Warwickshire

most recently Sharpes work was included in the BBC project 'Your Paintings' which aims to allow easy acess to painting in public collections online.