Brayane Herbert Wynter (8 September 1915 – 2 February 1975)The-Artist.orgwebsite (Includes chronology and photographic portrait)
was one of the St. Ives group of British painters. His work was mainly abstract, drawing upon nature for inspiration. Born in London, he was educated at Haileybury. In 1933 he began work as a trainee in his family's laundry business. In 1937–38 he studied at Westminster School of Art, and 1938–40 at the

Slade School of Fine Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

in London and Oxford. In the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

he was a

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, first working on land drainage in Oxfordshire, then looking after monkeys being studied by the zoologist

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. He settled in Zennor, Cornwall, in 1945, and in 1946 was co-founder of the Crypt Group. He married Suzanne Lethbridge, daughter of the writer Mabel Lethbridge whom he met in Cornwall. He taught at Bath Academy of Art,

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, from 1951 to 1956. He was a member of the

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of artists, and of the Penwith Society of Arts. He died at

Penzance Penzance ( ; ) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the westernmost major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated in the ...

, Cornwall. His auction record is £131,000 for his painting ''In the Streams Path'' (1958), set at Sotheby's on 11 November 2016. The work had been acquired by the pop star

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in 1995 at the sale of the collection of Sir John Moores. In 2001 he was the subject of ''Bryan Wynter: A Selected Retrospective'' at

Tate St Ives Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Mu ...

. Some of his most remarkable works are constructions which he titled IMOOS (Images Moving Out Onto Space). Using a parabolic mirror, he would hang contrasting pairs of painted shapes, which rotated freely. Their reversed reflections enlarged, appearing to move in opposite directions.

Collections

Nine of his works are in the Tate collection, and 14 in the collection of the

British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh lang ...

.Bryan Wynter's works in the British Council collection
His works are also in the collections of the

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, the

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, the National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, Southampton City Art Gallery, York City Art Gallery, the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, the

Government Art Collection The Government Art Collection (GAC) is the collection of artworks owned by the UK government and administered by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The GAC's artworks are used to decorate major government buildings in the UK and ...

, the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, the Usher Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, the Whitworth Art Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery.

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Cornwall County Council art collection- biographical information and chronology

Tate online

Image in National Portrait Gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wynter, Bryan 1915 births 1975 deaths Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art 20th-century English painters English male painters St Ives artists English conscientious objectors 20th-century English male artists

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