AN ARTIST who died before completing her last painting has had her final wish granted.

Clarice Hall Pomfret was an art and pottery teacher at Tyldesley Tech.

She became a well-known artist after winning first prize in a nationwide painting competition and her work appeared in the Walker Gallery in Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery and Woburn Abbey.

But due to ill health, Mrs Pomfret’s eye sight began to deteriorate and she was unable to continue painting. Before her death in December, 2014, she confided in her friend and student that she had one painting left to complete. To fulfil her wishes, Thomas Jackson has completed her painting in her honour.

Mr Jackson, aged 62, from Hindley, said: “During the 1980s I was looking for a night class to do once a week. I found a pottery class at Tyldesley Tech. One night our teacher Clarice Pomfret asked if it was me passing her house on my way to the tech and when I replied yes, she offered me lifts there and back.

“During our travels we found We had a mutual love of art and painting. She offered to show me her work at home in Stanley Street, Atherton. She told me she only had one more picture to paint — Atherton Fire Station, when it was in Flapper Fold Lane.”

Her eye sight was failing and she told him she would eventually need a guide dog. He found pictures of the fire station for her.

He added: “But when she looked at them she just said ‘Sorry I can’t see these pictures to paint it’. Her eyes sight did fail andShe eventually had to give up painting, driving and the pottery class as well.

“I saw her a few times in Market Street and we chatted, then last December I heard she had passed away. I painted the water colour of Atherton Fire Station in honour of Clarice and I hope I did it justice for her.”