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Rodney Fryer Russell
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Rodney Fryer Russell RWS (1918-1996) was an amateur watercolourist, portrait painter and poet. He was born in Dorset, England. He had a brother Christopher (who died before the war) and a sister Joan. In 1950 he won a scholarship to Paris. He lived in London, West Sussex, Spain and Dorset. Having half completed an architectural degree at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) by 1939, he commanded an ML off the coast of Britain and saw service in the Far East. After the war Russell studied art at the L.C.C. Central School of Art and Design and worked for ten years as a commercial artist. Russell married Elisabeth Shettle, with whom he had a daughter Virginia and two sons James and David. On Elisabeth's death he married Doreen Gildea. His last wife Pamela Till, with whom he lived in Dorset, is also an amateur portrait and landscape painter. |
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