page_title: Evan Charlton
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Evan Charlton / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the factoryfloor of a parachute factory, showing a row of women working at sewing machines with bales of silk in the background &amp; other activities depicted
context_page_description: Evan Charlton was a British artist who painted surrealist landscapes and interiors.
context_section_description: In 1935 Charlton took a teaching post at the West of England College of Art in Bristol. While at Bristol he met his wife Felicity, who was a student at the college. He left Bristol in 1938 when he was appointed the Head of the Cardiff School of Art. He appointed Ceri Richards as Head of Painting there in 1940.
  During World War Two, Charlton worked as a war artist with a series of short-term contracts from the War Artists' Advisory Committee to paint industrial scenes and also some portraits.
  In about 1945 Charlton was appointed Her Majesty's Inspector of Art for Wales, inspecting art colleges. In 1962 he was appointed Staff Inspector of Art, with his remit covering all the art colleges in England and Wales. He retired from the Civil Service in 1964.
  Charlton continued to paint and draw during his career as a teacher and a college inspector, and in retirement he  painted full-time and was able to contribute to a number of exhibitions, including at the Royal West of England Academy, the New English Art Club and the Welsh Arts Council.
  Charlton died in Porthkerry, South Glamorgan, where he had lived for several years. A memorial exhibition of his work was held at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff in 1985. Cardiff Metropolitan University, the successor of Cardiff School of Art, issues the Evan and Felicity Charlton Travel Award annually, in memory of Charlton and his wife, the artist Felicity Charlton.
caption: A Parachute Factory (1943), (Art.IWM ART LD 2908)
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