CusArtisttom Category: Modern / Contemporary British

Richard Allen (1933-99)

Richard Allen was a British painter working from the 1960s onwards in Abstract, Minimalism, Systems, Geometric, Pop and Op Art, through collages, paintings and prints.  He initially studied agricultural engineering which was then followed by National Service in the Far East.  On his return he began to study art in Worcestershire and in 1957 went… Read more »

Liliane Lijn (b1939)

Liliane Lijn is a ‘New Yorker by birth, a European by education, and a Londoner by choice.’ She is a leading pioneer and exponent of kinetic art and continues to experiment with light, movement, words, film, liquids and industrial materials. She studied in Paris in the late 1950’s at the Sorbonne and the Ecole du… Read more »

Rupert Shephard (1909-1992)

Shephard has works in the British Museum, the Imperial War Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.  He studied at the Slade School of Art from 1926 until 1929. On leaving the Slade, Shephard became a schoolmaster using his evenings to paint. His paintings have been exhibited since 1929 at various London venues. In 1937, the… Read more »

Ian Laurie (b1933)

Laurie is a self-taught artist originally from Scotland, who moved to Cornwall in the 1990’s. He began his own career with sketching which became etching, and then progressed to creating etchings in limited editions.  During the 1970s and 80s his primary markets were Liberty’s and the Medici Gallery in London. He and his wife Mona… Read more »

Kenneth Lindley RE (1935-1986)

Kenneth Arthur Lindley RE. was born in London and studied at Ealing School of Art 1943-49 and at Hornsey School of Art and Crafts 1949-50. He became a teacher in 1950 lecturing at Loughborough School of Art 1950-57 and at Swindon School of Art 1957-65. Lindley became Head of Wakefield School of Art in 1966,… Read more »

Graham Clarke (b1941)

Graham Clarke is one of Britain’s most popular and best-selling printmakers. He has created some five hundred images of English rural life and history and of the Englishman’s view of Europe. Born in 1941, Clarke’s upbringing in the austerity of war-time and post-war Britain, made him reliant on his own imaginative resources. Responding to the… Read more »

Nigel Hall RA (b1943)

Nigel Hall studied at the West of England College of Art, Bristol from 1960 to 1964 and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1964 to 1967. A Harkness Fellowship took him to the United States from 1967 to 1969. Hall has had many exhibitions around the world and has been widely collected. His… Read more »

Peter Smith RE

Peter S Smith is a painter/printmaker working out of a studio in Clink Street on the Southbank in London. He studied Fine Art at Birmingham Polytechnic (BA (Hons) Fine Art, 1969) and has a PGCE in Art Education from Manchester. In 1992 he gained an MA (Printmaking) at Wimbledon School of Art. He exhibits his… Read more »

Claire Dalby RE (b1944)

Dalby was born in St Andrews, and studied art at City & Guilds of London art School. In 1966 she had her first work exhibited at the Royal Academy and went on to exhibit at the Clarges Gallery in London.  She has exhibited in group shows including those by the Society of Wood Engravers, the… Read more »

Peter Reddick (1924-2010)

Peter was one of the country’s leading wood engravers and printmakers and illustrated a number of books for the Folio Society particularly the work of Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope, the Limited Editions Club, New York, The Readers Digest amongst other publishers. He was made Gregynog Arts Fellow between 1979 and 1980 and the work… Read more »

George Tute RE (b1933)

Printmaker, notably a wood engraver, painter, illustrator and teacher, born in Hull, Yorkshire. After education in Lancashire he studied at Blackpool School of Art, Royal Academy Schools, Courtauld Institute, Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art and Central School. Tute taught at West of England College of Art and Bristol Polytechnic. Elected RE, first chairman of… Read more »

Monica Poole RE (1921-2003)

Highly renowned Wood-engraver; born in Canterbury, Kent and studied at Thanet School of Art, Margate, 1938; worked in an aircraft factory during WWII; continued her studies 1945-9 on John Farleigh’s illustration course at the Central School of Arts and Crafts; 1977-93 producing woodcuts and exhibiting with solo shows at Duncan Campbell, 1989 and 1993; also… Read more »