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Trevor Bell

Trevor Bell (1930 - 2017) was active/lived in Florida / England.  Trevor Bell is 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 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 limited to being a St. Ives artist.  But scholars have noted that being there in the 1950s was fo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2947 characters.]  Artist bio

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