Biography
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1918
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Born in Frankfurt-am-Main
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1933
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Flees Nazi rule - is sent to Netherlands, and then to Canford School, Dorset
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1936-39
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Studies at Slade School of Art, London - fellow students include Patrick Heron and Adrian Heath
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1940-41
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Interned on the Isle of Man, then in Canada
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1941-45
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Returns to England and teaches art Eastbourne college
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1945
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Marries the painter June Miles, with whom he has three children
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1946
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Begins teaching at the West of England College of Art, Bristol (is made Head of Painting in 1960)
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1953
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Moves to Kerris, Cornwall, and begins teaching at the St Ives summer school
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First solo show, at the Redfern Gallery, London - reviewed by Patrick Heron in 'New Statesman'
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1956
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Teaches at the St Ives summer school initiated by Peter Lanyon and Terry Frost
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1957
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Selected for the British Council touring exhibition 'British Abstract Painting'
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1961
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Solo show the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; group shows include 'British Paintings in the 1960s' at the Tate Gallery
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1964
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Group show at Arnolfini Gallery with his friends Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton and Alan Davie
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1970
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Marries the painter Catharine Armitage with whom he has twin sons
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1975
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Takes over Bryan Wynter's studio near Paul
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1995
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Retrospective at Tate St Ives
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2005
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Second retrospective at Tate St Ives
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Selected solo exhibitions
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1953, '54, '56, '57
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Redfern Gallery, London
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1954, '58
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Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC
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1961
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Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
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1962
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Grosvenor Gallery, London
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1966
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Balliol College, Oxford
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1968
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Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
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1972
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St Katherine's Gallery, St Andrews University
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1975
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Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
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1977
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Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives
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1981-82
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Crawford Centre for the Arts, University of St Andrews (Scottish Arts Council touring exhibition)
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1982
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Fayetteville Museum of Art, North Carolina
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1983
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Penwith Gallery, St Ives
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1985
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Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
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1986
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Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
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1987
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Galerie 20, Paris
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1990
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Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
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1993
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Redfern Gallery, London
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1995
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Tate St Ives
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1999
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Redfern Gallery, London
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2002
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Redfern Gallery, London
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2005
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Tate St Ives
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2007
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Redfern Gallery, London
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2010
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Redfern Gallery, London
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2011
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Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
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2013
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Redfern Gallery, London
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2017
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Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
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2017
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Redfern Gallery, London
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Selected group exhibitions
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1949
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Bristol City Art Gallery, 'Young Contemporaries'
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1950
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Bristol City Art Gallery, 'Five Contemporary Painters: Wynter, Treffgarne, Ryan, Heron, Feiler'
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1952
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Bryanston Summer School, Dorset, 'Wynter, Scott, Lanyon, Feiler'
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AIA, New Burlington Galleries, London, 'The Mirror and the Square'
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1953
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'West Country Landscapes' (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition of UK and Germany)
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ICA, London, 'The Unknown Political Prisoner'
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Tate Gallery, London, 'Figures in their Setting'
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Redfern Gallery, London, 'Coronation Exhibition'
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1954
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'Recent British Painting' (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition)
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Rowland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 'Parallels in Modern Painting'
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David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin, 'Nine English Painters'
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Tate Gallery, London, 'The Seasons'
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Octagon Gallery, Bath, 'Bryan Wynter, Peter Potworowski, Peter Lanyon, Paul Feiler'
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1956
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Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 'Statements – A Review of British Abstract Art'
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Parsons Gallery, London, 'Aspects of Contemporary English Painting'
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1957
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'British Abstract Painting' (British Council touring exhibition to Paris, Milan, Montreal, Melbourne and Sydney)
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Redfern Gallery, London, 'Metavisual, Tachiste, and Abstract Painting in England Today'
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O’Hana Gallery, London, 'Dimensions: British Abstract Art 1948–57'
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1958
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Redfern Gallery, London, 'British Abstract Painting' (touring to Liege, Johannesburg, Capetown and Auckland)
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1959
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Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Present Day Painting'
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Tate Gallery, London, 'The Religious Theme'
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'Fifty Years of British Painting' (Contemporary Art Society; touring to Peking and Shanghai)
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1960
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'Contemporary British Landscapes' (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition)
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1961-62
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Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 'John Moores'
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Tate Gallery, London, 'British Painting in the 1960s'
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1964
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Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol, 'Lanyon, Hilton, Feiler, Davie'
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1972
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Archer Gallery, London, '2 by 7'
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1977
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New Art Centre, London, 'Cornwall 1945–77'
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1985
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Tate Gallery, London, 'St Ives 1939–64: Twenty-five Years of Painting, Sculpture and Pottery'
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1989
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Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London 'Post-War British Abstract Art'
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2014
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Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 'The Power of the Sea: Making Waves in British Art 1790–2014'
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2015
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Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 'St Ives and British Modernism: the George and Ann Dannatt Collection'
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Selected collections
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Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
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Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London
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Albertina, Vienna, Austria
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Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
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Birmingham Museums Trust
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Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
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British Library, London
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British Museum, London
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British Council Collection, London
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Cornwall Council Art Collection
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Dunedin Art Gallery, New Zealand
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Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
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Hamilton Art Gallery, Canada
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The Hepworth Wakefield
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Jerwood Collection
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Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge
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Leeds Museums & Galleries
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Manchester Art Gallery
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Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
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Museums Sheffield
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Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
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Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, DC
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Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
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Tate
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Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
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Toronto Art Gallery, Canada
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Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
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Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
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Ulster Museum, Belfast
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University of Warwick
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Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool
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The Whitworth, University of Manchester
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