Painter.

Biography

His style moved from a neo-romantic and landscape based art to abstract painting after 1956

1915 Born in London, 8 September

1938-40 Studied Slade School of Fine Art, London

1945 Settled in Zennor, Cornwall. Co-founder of the Crypt Group, St. Ives

1951-56 Taught at Bath Academy of Art

1956 Moved from small-scale figurative paintings to large abstract paintings

1960 Began making constructions which he titled IMOOS (Images Moving Out Onto Space). Using a parabolic mirror, he would hang contrasting pairs of painted shapes, which rotated freely. Their reversed reflections enlarged, appearing to move in opposite directions.

1975 Died at Penzance, Cornwall, 11 February

Bibliography

1982 Penwith Galleries Bryan Wynter: A Selection of Work from 1951 to 1975 St. Ives

2000 Chris Stevens, Bryan Wynter, Tate Gallery Publishing, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1947 First solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, London, where he exhibited regularly until 1957

1959 Waddington Galleries, London

1962 Waddington Galleries, London and the Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich

1963 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

1966 The Arts Council Gallery, Belfast and at the Waddington Galleries, London

1969 Sherlock Gallery, Tor Point, East Cornwall

1971 University of Exeter Exhibition Hall

1974 Waddington Galleries, London

1976 Memorial exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London

1981-82 New Art Centre, London

1987 Gillian Jason Gallery, London

Collections

In the collections of Arts Council of Great Britain; British Council, London; Contemporary Art Society, London; Tate Gallery, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London Museum of Modern Art, New York;