Bryan Inham was born in Preston, and studied at St Martin’s School of Art in the 1950s, before accepting a post-graduate place at the Royal College of Art. Having always been fascinated by Italy, he then applied for and received a Leverhulme travel award to explore the sites of the great Renaissance painters, and spent many happy months engaged in this expedition.

On his return to England he moved to Cornwall, settling in a remote cottage with no electricity or running water, on the Lizard Penninsula. A sense of place is central to Ingham’s art and the untamed beauty of the landscape became a constant source of inspiration to him. Although in some ways isolationist, Ingham was a prominent t...