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PETER LANYON:

Peter Lanyon (1918-1964) was a painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. He also made constructions, pottery and collage. Born in St Ives, Cornwall, which remained his base, Lanyon received after-school painting lessons from Borlase Smart. In 1937 he attended Penzance School of Art, and also attended the Euston Road School. From 1940-1945 he served with the Royal Air Force. During the 1950s he became established as a leading figure in the St. Ives group of artists. He died in Taunton, Somerset, as the result of injuries received in a gliding accident; his death was a severe blow to Cornish painting. (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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ROGER HILTON :

Roger Hilton was a pioneer of abstract art in post-war Britain. He was born in 1911 in Northwood, London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and also in Paris, where he developed links with painters on the Continent. But he is always connected with St. Ives, and moved permanently to west Cornwall in 1965. By 1974 he was confined to bed as an invalid precipitated in part by alcoholism. His work became less abstract in his later years, often being based on the nude or images of animals. He died in 1975. ( from Wikipedia )

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Sir Terry Frost (October 13, 1915 – September 1, 2003) was an English artist noted for his abstracts. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, in 1915, he did not become an artist until he was in his 30s. During his army service in World War II, he met and was taught by Adrian Heath while a prisoner of war. Subsequently, he attended Camberwell School of Art and the St Ives School of Art. In 1951, he worked as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. His career included teaching at the Bath Academy of Art, serving as Gregory Fellow at the University of Leeds, and becoming the artist in residence and Professor of Painting at the Department of Fine Art of the University of Reading. In 1992, he was elected a Royal Academician and he was knighted in 1998. ( from Wikipedia )

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Patrick Heron (January 30, 1920 – March 20, 1999), was an English artist, based in St. Ives, Cornwall. Born in Leeds on the 30 January 1920, he studied part-time at the Slade School of Fine Art (1937–1939) and worked as an assistant at Bernard Leach's Pottery in St. Ives (1945). He taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London (1953–1956) and worked as an art critic on the New Statesman. His early work was influenced by Henri Matisse and consisted of figurative studies, but later on he developed an abstract style using unusual colours and intricate patterns. He developed his interest abstraction in 1956, having moved to St Ives and becoming a member of the strong community of British artists there. Although the subjects of his work – stripes, more abstract soft shapes and wiggly forms – are constantly changing, the colours he uses are deliciously bright and fun.( From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

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William Scott was born at Greenock in 1913, his family moving from Scotland to Ireland soon afterwards. He trained at Belfast College of Art and then at London's Royal Academy Schools where he switched from sculpture to painting, winning prizes in both departments. After exhibiting in the Paris Salon d'Automne, in 1938, he founded a Pont-Aven painting school with Geoffrey Nelson and his wife Mary Scott. But with the outbreak of war he returned to England via Ireland. War-time exhibitions included a British Council touring display to South America and a debut solo show in London, at the Leger Galleries. For a decade from 1946 Scott taught at the Bath Academy of Arts, Corsham and during this period got to know many of the St Ives artists. He also joined the London Group and exhibited at the Leicester and Hanover galleries. In 1951 he featured in the Arts Council show for the Festival of Britain. In 1953 he visited the Canada and the United States, meeting Rothko, Pollock, Kline and De Kooning. He represented Britain at the 1958 Venice Biennale and the 1961 San Paulo Bienal ...williamscott.org