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His works can be found in private collections worldwide and museums nationally including Norwich Castle Museum.
Rowland Fisher (1885–1969) was born in Gorleston and lived in Upper Cliff Road for his whole adult life. He married and settled in Nottingham in 1903 and remained there until he died in Gorleston on 28 August 1955.
Mellon served in The Great War, retiring to Gorleston in Norfolk in the years following. For the next three years Mellon became Sir John’s student and also his friend. Mellon was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil in 1938, and to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1939 and exhibited widely; he was Chairman of the Great Yarmouth Art Society.
He sat for many hours in his house overlooking the harbour and observed the waves and the skies. He was a landscape painter whose works were evocative of the East Anglian landscape with its towering skies.
Campbell Archibald Mellon ROI, RBA (1876 - 1955)
Campbell Archibald Mellon was born in Berkshire on June 16th 1876; he moved to Nottingham in 1903 to work as a travelling salesman and studied under Carl Brenner, a nephew of B.
W. Leader.
In 1928 Campbell Mellon moved to Norfolk following in the footsteps of the artist Sir John Arnesby Brown RA, whom he greatly admired. In 1918, after service in the World War, Mellon moved to and settled in Gorleston, initially at number 2 Upper Cliff Road, moving to number 1 Upper Cliff Road at some time during the 1930s.
He was more interested in composing an image that conjured up the atmospheric qualities of happiness rather than a sober pictorial translation of what he had seen. He lived in a house on the cliff top overlooking Gorleston-on-Sea and for three years became a student of Arnesby Brown, forming a lifelong friendship.
Living with a view of the beach and harbour Campbell Mellon brilliantly captured the holiday makers on the beach and although he had used dark “muddy” colours for his early landscapes his later beach scenes were painted directly into the sun giving warmth and light.
Campbell Mellon was a founder member and the first Chairman of the “Great Yarmouth and District Society of Artists” formed in 1927, he exhibited at the RA, RBA, ROI, RW and at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, being elected ROI and RBA in 1938.
Campbell Mellon Died on the 28th August 1955.
Artists Biography
He is best known for his marine works in oil and watercolour, although he also painted Norfolk landscapes as well as continental scenes. It was here in Norfolk that he turned to painting as a career, studying with Sir John Alfred Arnesley Brown RA (1866-1955). After his arrival in Norfolk he studied under Sir John Alfred Arnesby Brown.
Although Mellon’s worked out of doors, his paintings were believed to be largely composed in the studio, as he re-arrange, eliminated detail he didn’t see fitting and added design to suit his ideas.
Mellon studied under Carl Brenner, nephew of Benjamin Williams Leader amongst other artists. Mellon inherited a certain similarity of brushwork and this interest in the East Anglian atmospheric conditions, many of his coastal scenes are inscribed with dates and times. He helped to found the Great Yarmouth and District Society of Artists, of which he later became president, and, following painting holidays, was elected a member of the St Ives Society of Artists.
Arnesley Brown, coincidentally born in Nottingham, having lived and painted in Cornwall and London, settled in Norfolk in the village of Haddiscoe near Gorleston. He was later made a member of ROI. He has influenced many of the later East Anglian landscape artists.