John Reginald Brunsdon ARCA(1933 – 2014)

John Brunsdon was a British artist, printmaker and painter, who is still considered to be one of the finest British printmakers of the 20th Century.

Brunsdon studied at the Cheltenham College of Art and afterwards at the Royal College of Art under Julian Trevelyan, Edwin La Dell, Edward Ardizzone and Edward Bawden.

Inspired initially by the great American abstract expressionists (and artists such as Yves Klein) Brunsdon’s early work in monochrome as well as colour assured his reputation, showing by invitation at the New Editions Exhibition (group show) at the Zwemmer Gallery in 1961.

By the 1970s Brunsdon’s work became more figurative and led by landscape turning further again to a more representational style in his later life.

In 1969 he established the printmaking department at St Albans College of Art, where he taught full-time for 16 years as Head of Printmaking while exhibiting extensively in Britain and abroad, until moving to Stradbroke in Suffolk in 1977.

Brunsdon was a full member of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and in 1965 a founder member of The Printmakers Council.

His work is represented in many major public collections such as the Tate Gallery, the Scottish Museum of Modern Art, the V&A, the Arts Council, MOMA in New York, and the British Council.

Picture dimensions = 60.45cm
Frame dimensions = 79.5x57cm

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