Jesse Arthur Bruton (1933–2021) was a British artist, and a founder of the

Ikon Gallery The Ikon Gallery () is an England, English art gallery, gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Listed building, Grade II listed, neo-Gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henr ...

in Birmingham. He gave up painting in 1972, to become a picture conservator. Bruton was born in 1933, and was educated at

Birmingham College of Art The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. Although the organisation was absorbed by Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971 and is now part of Birmingham City University's Faculty of Arts, Design a ...

, where he later lectured. He painted

landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

, and later abstract works. He exhibited at the

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square, Birmingham, St Pa ...

, and held solo exhibitions at Ikon in 1965 and 1967. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at Ikon from July to September 2016. His painting ''Winding Road'' (1967–1968) is in the collection of

Birmingham Museums Trust Birmingham Museums Trust is the largest independent charitable trust of museums in the United Kingdom. It runs nine museum sites across the city of Birmingham, including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and Thinktank, Birmingham Scien ...

. Bruton died in 2021.

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Artist's Talk - Jesse Bruton and Pamela Scott Wilkie in conversation {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruton, Jesse 1933 births 2021 deaths 20th-century British painters Conservator-restorers British landscape painters British abstract artists