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Born Ferndale, Rhondda Wales 1915. Died Hastings East Sussex 2000.
George poole has exhibited his work at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Academy of arts, The Mall galleries, Gimpel Fils, Mercury and piccadily Galleries, Battersea District Library, Richmond Hill Gallery, Leicester Fine Art Gallery, Park and Dare Institute, from 1940 to 1992.

He has exhibited alongside Picasso, Roger Hilton, William Scott, Ben Nicolson, Ern Brooks, Ray Watkinson. Friends with Ewan MacColl and Dylan Thomas in the early part of his artistic life, he took part in an exhibition with Ern Brooks called drawings and paintings of Miners in the Rhondda, the forward was written by the singer Ewan MacColl.

He exhibited one man shows since the 1940s. He contributed to group exhibitions and mixed shows frequently.

His work has been purchased mainly by private collectors and his paintings are in collections in America, Europe and the British Isles.