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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]21st Oct 1943 Ripley Gazette LANGLEY MILL ARTIST’S EXHIBITS Painting while with the Forces Overseas (By a military correspondent) A well-known Nottinghamshire artist who has exhibited at the Royal Academy is now serving overseas with the 50th (Northumbrian) Division as an instrument mechanic in a light A.A. regiment (workshop section) R.E.M.E. He is Craftsman Frederick C. Bell (32) a member of the Nottingham Society of Artists, had a self-portrait and an oil painting hung in the Royal Academy in 1941. In 1940 he exhibited at the Derby Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, and for a number of years his work was on show at the Nottingham exhibition. It was not at his workbench that I met him, but in a little concert hall, where he and other members of the unit concert party were at rehearsals. “I still keep up my painting.” Said Bell “Not that I have much spare time for it, but I make the best of things. Someone managed to find me a box of oil colours, and I suppose I’ve painted and sketched my way through the Middle East and the Mediterranean. “Sketches aboard ship, sketches of army life, war damage, portraits, landscapes – do you know, already I have two sketch books full. “After the war perhaps I’ll have a special little exhibition of my war-time collection.” He added reflectively. “If you have a minute or two spare sir, I will sketch you, too” laughed his companion. In addition to being an artist, Bell who is married is in peacetime a dental mechanic. [/quote]
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21st Oct 1943 Ripley Gazette
LANGLEY MILL ARTIST’S EXHIBITS
Painting while with the Forces Overseas
(By a military correspondent)
A well-known Nottinghamshire artist who has exhibited at the Royal Academy is now serving overseas with the 50th (Northumbrian) Division as an instrument mechanic in a light A.A. regiment (workshop section) R.E.M.E.
He is Craftsman Frederick C. Bell (32) a member of the Nottingham Society of Artists, had a self-portrait and an oil painting hung in the Royal Academy in 1941. In 1940 he exhibited at the Derby Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, and for a number of years his work was on show at the Nottingham exhibition.
It was not at his workbench that I met him, but in a little concert hall, where he and other members of the unit concert party were at rehearsals. “I still keep up my painting.” Said Bell “Not that I have much spare time for it, but I make the best of things. Someone managed to find me a box of oil colours, and I suppose I’ve painted and sketched my way through the Middle East and the Mediterranean. “Sketches aboard ship, sketches of army life, war damage, portraits, landscapes – do you know, already I have two sketch books full.
“After the war perhaps I’ll have a special little exhibition of my war-time collection.” He added reflectively.
“If you have a minute or two spare sir, I will sketch you, too” laughed his companion.
In addition to being an artist, Bell who is married is in peacetime a dental mechanic.

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