PONCKLE FLETCHER. BRITISH 1934-2012. MARCO DE MADERA PINTADO A MANO. FLORAL/PAN DE ORO.

PRECIOSO CUADRO OBRA LITOGRAFICA DE PONCKLE FLETCHER.MEDIDAS.AÑO '98 TOTALES 36,5x52cm.Was born in Chingford, north-east London, the oldest girl of five siblings. From an early age, she was clearly the black sheep of the family and her life went in a different direction from her peers'. At 17 she met and fell in love with the jazz pianist and arranger Ken Moule, who immediately nicknamed her "Ponckle" (a name she kept for the rest of her life, eventually changing it by deed poll) and asked her to marry him. He also recorded a song in her honour, Son of Ponckle. She later moved to Paris, where she worked as a stylist for the Katherine Dunham Dance Company.  Read moreHer constant restlessness led to divorce from Moule. Ponckle then married the photographer Trevor Clark in 1964 and had two sons, Gavin and me. We all moved to Mallorca in 1969, where Trevor became a travel photographer. Ponckle was his stylist and she also began making large fabric collage portraits. After seven years, she moved back to England with Gavin and me, and divorced Trevor. She continued to make fabric portraits and had a one-person show at the Courtauld Institute in London in 1974.Ponckle moved to St Ives in 1978. She opened a gallery at her house in Norway Lane, exhibiting her quirky paintings of local scenes, which gradually made a name for her commercially. In 1985 she opened Ponckle's Gallery in Island Square and started painting cats with views of St Ives. This was the most prolific period in her career and she was selling her paintings as fast as she could produce them.Ponckle's Gallery became an important social and artistic meeting place. The terrace was a riot of colour, flowers and jazz music, and there was never a dull moment. Ponckle became friends with the local artists Hyman Segal, Max Barrett and Patrick Hughes. Other regular visitors to the gallery were the artist and writer Molly Parkin, who lived locally, and the musician George Melly.MIRAR FOTOS SON PARTE DE LA DESCRIPCIÓN