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Frank Avray Wilson

Frank Avray Wilson (1914 - 2009) was active/lived in England.  Frank Wilson is known for Abstract expressionist painting.

Frank Avray Wilson (3 May 1914 – 1 January 2009) was a British artist and author. He was one of the first British artists to use Tachist* or action painting techniques.

Wilson was born in Vacoas, Mauritius, in 1914, the son of Albert James Wilson, a sugar manufacturer, by his marriage to Anna Avray. He was educated at Brighton College and St John's College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in biology, before studying art in Paris and

Inspired by both American Abstract Expressionism* and French Tachisme, Avray Wilson produced amongst the most dynamic abstracts during the post-war period in Britain. His work ranged from spiky linear compositions, through others more spare and geometric towards a mature style that comprised images both disciplined and energetic.

Critic Peter Davies described this contrast as ‘a meaningful, if tense, dichotomy between structure on the one hand and what Avray Wilson termed "Vitalist" or impulsive free form on the other’, whilst Cathy   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4314 characters.]  Artist bio

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