# Roger Hampson

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For the Australian footballer, see [Roger Hampson (footballer)](/source/Roger_Hampson_(footballer)).

**Roger Hampson** (1925–1996) was born in [Tyldesley](/source/Tyldesley), [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire), [England](/source/England). He was a teacher, painter and printmaker, taking inspiration from everyday surroundings, people and the industries prevalent in the area where he lived and worked.[1]

## Background

Roger Hampson was born in Union Street, [Tyldesley](/source/Tyldesley), and moved to Johnson Street when he was three. He attended [Leigh Grammar School](/source/Bedford_High_School_(Leigh)) and served in the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II).[2] After the war he attended [Manchester School of Art](/source/Manchester_School_of_Art) before becoming a teacher.

## Career

He spent a short time in [Hereford](/source/Hereford) before returning to [Manchester](/source/Manchester) where he worked as a graphic designer and began to exhibit paintings as part of a group of post-war artists who developed the realist tradition established by [L S Lowry](/source/L_S_Lowry) and [Harry Rutherford](/source/Harry_Rutherford).[3]

He spent most of his life in Tyldesley, an industrial town surrounded by [collieries](/source/List_of_collieries_in_Astley_and_Tyldesley) and dominated by [Caleb Wright](/source/Caleb_Wright)'s [Barnfield Mills](/source/Barnfield_Mills). He moved to the cotton town of [Bolton](/source/Bolton) where he became head of Bolton College of Art.

## References

**Notes**

1. Whittle 2009, p. 4.

1. Whittle 2009, p. 8.

**Bibliography**

- Whittle, Stephen (2009), *Roger Hampson a lost landscape*, Gallery Oldham, ISBN 978-0-9550385-5-6

## External links

- [Examples of Roger Hampson's work](http://www.artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/actor:hampson-roger-19251996)

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