Val Archer

At the RCA Archer won the Anstruther Prize for painting in 1970 before graduating the following year.^[2] After graduating, Archer undertook several commercial commissions and also held a number of visiting lectureships throughout her career. Her teaching included courses at the Crawford School of Art in Cork and at Cardiff College of Art.^[2] She also spent time teaching at the art schools in Chelsea, at Goldsmiths' College, Sheffield and Wolverhampton.^[3] Archer's commercial work included a 1982 poster design for British Rail and designs for the BBC Good Food magazine in the early 1990s.^[2]

In 1989 Archer had a solo exhibition of flower paintings at the Noortman Gallery in Maastricht.^[3] She also had an exhibition in Germany.^[2] Archer illustrated and published two books on fruit and flowers, A Basket of Berries in 1992 and A Basket of Apples the following year.^[2][4] Since 1998 Archer has been represented by the Chris Beetles Gallery in London.^[5] In 2006 Archer co-wrote an illustrated travel and food book about Italy called The Painter, the Cook and the Art of Cucina with Anna Del Conte.^[6]

• 2 artworks by or after Val Archer at the Art UK site