John Furnival (1933-2020)

The late John Furnival was a distinguished artist who studied at the Royal College of Art.  He described himself as a drawer of landscapes, personages and wordscapes.  He became one of the best loved artist-teachers of the community that was Bath Academy of Art at Corsham. He was also one of the longest serving; he taught at the Bath Academy and at the re-formed Bath School of Art and Design between 1960 and 2002.

Together with Ian Hamilton Finlay, dom Sylvester Houédard, Henri Chopin and Tom Phillips, he developed the practice of (minimalistic) Concrete Poetry to pioneer (maximalistic) Visual Poetry.

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