(1897 - 1975)
Harold Workman was born in Oldham, Manchester, the son of a decorator. After studying at Oldham and Manchester Schools of Art, he regularly exhibited work at the Royal Academy, New English Art Club and overseas in New York and Toronto. During his life he held a number of positions including membership of the Royal Society of British Artists (1937) and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (1948), and he was elected President of the United Society of Artists. He was also a visiting lecturer on colour and pigments, at Sir John Cass College and Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts. In the later years of his life he wrote extensively about polymer painting, and published a book on this subject in 1967. Polymer paints were acrylic pigments that were developed to attain a brilliance of colour and offered more flexibility than oil paints to artists. Workman spent the last years of his life in East Molesey, Surrey and died on 18 May 1975.
