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PJF Cards uses in its name the initials of Patrick Julian Fisher, a Harwich artist who died in 1987. He is now recognised as a major artist of the East Coast of England who specialised in the seascapes and landscapes of the Harwich area. After his untimely death a series of greeting cards and prints were made from his paintings and these were greeted with great enthusiasm.
The paintings and prints document the changing Harwich scene over a period of over twenty-five years. His paintings are in private collections in America , France and England. Perhaps the greatest compliment on his work came from the art critic of the East Anglian Daily Times who said of his work, on viewing a retrospective exhibition,
‘Patrick Fisher was to Harwich what Constable was to Flatford and Dedham — perhaps more so. He found what many environmental artists have found — enough subject matter within walking distance to last a lifetime.’
As his nephew, I publish this range of cards and prints and have added to this range of Harwich scenes with those of my own. PJF cards produces postcards, greeting cards, notelets, prints and calendars of the Harwich area.
The accompanying illustration (below) is of Patrick Fisher’s ‘Lighthouse and Spray’.
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