Charles Pulsford ARSA 1912-03/03/1989

Charles Pulsford ARSA was born in Leek, Staffordshire in 1912. He moved to Scotland as a child and upon finishing secondary school became a student at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1933. He was later awarded a post-graduate scholarship, followed by a travelling scholarship and in 1939 he was awarded a Fellowship, though this was interrupted by the war years. After the war, Pulsford returned to the Edinburgh College of Art to take up the Fellowship and he remained there as a teacher for many years.

His work reflected timelessness, metaphysical and mystical concepts which derived from Greco-Roman mythology and Christian themata. Abstraction came naturally to him, and his works were often executed in colourful geometric compositions.