Early Life and Artistic Formation Robert Ernest Clatworthy RA (1928-2015) emerged from the quiet Somerset countryside to become one of Britain’s most distinctive sculptors, a figure inextricably linked with the burgeoning geometric abstraction movement of the mid-century. Born in Bridgwater on January 31st, 1928, he was the son of Ernest Clatworthy, a railway clerk, and Gladys Jugaler—a family rooted in tradition yet imbued with an ap…