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1930 Leeds, England - 2017. Known for: Abstract landscape and figurative painting, teaching.
Trevor Bell is an abstract painter, associated with the St. Ives Colony*, where he lived early and late in his career. He is also known for an important innovation as "in a radical rethinking of... Read full biography
Trevor Bell is an abstract painter, associated with the St. Ives Colony*, where he lived early and late in his career. He is also known for an important innovation as "in a radical rethinking of painterly practice he began to make works that were not confined by their frames but instead made the... Read full biography
Trevor Bell is an abstract painter, associated with the St. Ives Colony*, where he lived early and late in his career. He is also known for an important innovation as "in a radical rethinking of painterly practice he began to make works that were not confined by their frames but instead made the frame an intrinsic part of their design." (amazon). Born in Leeds, England in 1930, he studied at the Leeds College of Art from 1947 to 1952, and also he did teaching at Harrogate Art College. Inspired... Read full biography
Trevor Bell is an abstract painter, associated with the St. Ives Colony*, where he lived early and late in his career. He is also known for an important innovation as "in a radical rethinking of painterly practice he began to make works that were not confined by their frames but instead made the frame an intrinsic part of their design." (amazon). Born in Leeds, England in 1930, he studied at the Leeds College of Art from 1947 to 1952, and also he did teaching at Harrogate Art College. Inspired from meeting St. Ives artist Terry Frost at Leeds, Bell determined to go to Cornwall where, in the early 1950s, he became a leading member of the St. Ives artists, having arrived on an old motorcycle in 1955. He joined the Penwith Society* and shared... Read full biography
Trevor Bell is an abstract painter, associated with the St. Ives Colony*, where he lived early and late in his career. He is also known for an important innovation as "in a radical rethinking of painterly practice he began to make works that were not confined by their frames but instead made the frame an intrinsic part of their design." (amazon). Born in Leeds, England in 1930, he studied at the Leeds College of Art from 1947 to 1952, and also he did teaching at Harrogate Art College. Inspired from meeting St. Ives artist Terry Frost at Leeds, Bell determined to go to Cornwall where, in the early 1950s, he became a leading member of the St. Ives artists, having arrived on an old motorcycle in 1955. He joined the Penwith Society* and shared a basement studio with Brian Wall. At that tine, he stayed only five years and looking back, never considered himself li... Read full biography
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Keywords (16)
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Industrial Scenes, Factories, Labor Genre and Figure
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cornwall, England
Art Association
- •Penwith Socety of Arts, England
Art School
- •Leeds College of Art, England, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Gregory Teaching Fellowship, University of Leeds
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Waddington Galleries, England and Canada