George Chapman was a painter and printmaker, born in London. He studied at Gravesend School of Art, Royal College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art, having worked in advertising to save money to study. Earliest influences were Walter Sickert and the Euston Road School painters. Early in World War II he visited the Rhondda Valley, Wales, which gave his work new direction, leading to a prolific period. He ived in Great Bardfield, Essex, 1948–60, and was part of the artists colony there with the likes of Edward Bawden and then moved to Aberaeron, Wales, in 1960. He was the subject of a BBC Monitor television programme in 1961. Chapman took part in many mixed shows, one-man exhibitions including Piccadilly Gallery, Zwemmer Gallery and Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff. His work is in a number of public collections, including Victoria & Albert Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
(c) 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman

