
Landscape with Cottages, Clayworth, Nottinghamshire c.1985
Terence Bennett (b.1935)
Southend Museums ServicePainter and teacher, born and lived in Doncaster, Yorkshire. He attended the local School of Art, 1951–6, then after National Service taught, giving up teaching to paint full-time in a mining village near Rotherham, 1971. In 1973 gained a Yorkshire Fine Art Fellowship, not long after he had taken up up teaching part-time, eventually becoming head of art department, Thomas Rotherham College, Rotherham.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)