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'"Charles Denis Pulsford (1912-1989)'" was a Scottish painter. He was born on the 8th of June 1912 of Scottish parents in Leek, Staffordshire, and was brought up in Aberdour, Fife. He attended Dunfermline High School. He was a student at Edinburgh College of Art from 1933-37, and after postgraduate study travelled in Europe (1938-39) on an ECA travelling scholarship, with his friend and fellow-painter William Gear. He was awarded a residency Hospitalfield House, Arbroath in the summer of 1939, and then embarked on a two year fellowship at ECA, which was interrupted by the Second World War. After service in North Africa and Iraq, Pulsford returned to Edinburgh at Christmastime 1945, and in 1946 resumed his fellowship. He taught at Edinburgh College of Art from 1946-1960. His academic career continued at Loughborough College of Art where he was vice-principal until 1964, then at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, where he was Head of Faculty of Fine Art then Principal Lecturer until his retirement in 1972.

He exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy from the early 1950s until the end of his productive life, some thirty years later. He was elected an Associate of the Academy in 1959. His was the first non-representational (abstract) work to be accepted for exhibition at the RSA. He exhibited at Gimpel Fils in London in 1953 and 1956. In his later years, he combined the development of radical teaching ideas (he published his manifesto "The Creative Cell" in 1972) with a post-modern approach to the creative life, inspired by the freedoms seized by art students in English colleges during the 1960s and 70s. His own educational ideas had contributed to that radical time. He died in Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, on March 2nd 1989. He was married to the stained glass designer Bronwen Gordon (b.1922).