The earliest roots of abstract painting begin in Europe with the Ukrainian born Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square painting of 1915. Alongside abstracted landscape works by Moscow born Wassily Kandinsky. As the movement evolved it spread across Europe and then to the USA.
Following the Second World War abstraction achieved significant support from the US Government. Who engaged it to act as a form of soft diplomacy through culture. With critic Clement Greenberg helping launch the careers of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning & Clyfford Still.
100 years on and abstract painting is thriving, with a significant group of artists practicing in the UK. Including Susan Gunn, Mary Webb, Julian Brown, Karl Bielik and Terry Green.
Quarry, Two Spires – Yellow 2012
David Ainley (b.1943)
Acrylic on five-part panel
H 33 x W 28.5 cm
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Yellow and Black 2009–2010
Pen Dalton (b.1944)
Mixed media on canvas
H 120 x W 100 cm
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San Luis VI 2000
Mary Webb (b.1939)
Oil on canvas
H 45.7 x W 45.7 cm
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Series 4, No. 5 2016
Teresita Dennis (b.1957)
Oil & acrylic on canvas
H 30 x W 31 cm
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Night Game 3 2024
Lawrence Preece (b.1942)
Acrylic on canvas
H 30.4 x W 40.5 cm
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Snakes 2016
Lisa Denyer (b.1984)
Acrylic & emulsion on hardboard
H 30 x W 30 cm
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Forgotten Spaces 1 2011–2012
Marius von Brasch (b.1958)
Oil on linen
H 92 x W 92 cm
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Notes on Saint's Hair (iv) 2020
Maria Chevska (b.1948)
Oil on linen
H 160 x W 110 cm
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Cascade 2018
Sarah Longworth-West (b.1981)
Oil paint & silver leaf on pigmented gesso pane
H 42 x W 30 cm
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Divided Ground 2012
Susan Gunn (b.1965)
Acid yellows, linseed oil, wax, natural earth pigment & gesso on canvas
H 91 x W 91 cm
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Tipping Point (cadmium red medium – cadmium orange) – 1 2014
Bryan Lavelle
Acrylic on MDF
H 30 x W 30 cm
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The Realising of a Caprice 2017
Molly Thomson (b.1953)
Acrylic on board (two components)
H 31 x W 43.5 cm
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Better Git it in Your Soul 2016
David Manley
Acrylic on board
H 59.8 x W 75 cm
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Buccaneers II 2005
Julian Brown (b.1974)
Acrylic on canvas
H 90 x W 110 cm
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Amnesia 2014
Sue Kennington (b.1955)
Acrylic on canvas
H 50 x W 75 cm
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Quayside 2015
Keith Murdoch (b.1972)
Oil on canvas
H 20.2 x W 25.2 cm
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Eclipse 1999–2000
Julie Umerle (b.1954)
Oil & acrylic on canvas
H 51 x W 46 cm
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Interface GRY#002 2014
Charley Peters (b.1973)
Acrylic on plywood
H 24 x W 18 cm
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Ruth Philo (active since 1978)
Oil & wax on canvas
H 30 x W 25 cm
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Zippy Four 2015
Lucy Cox (b.1988)
Acrylic on canvas
H 90 x W 120 cm
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Head Construct 1 2013
Ben Cove (1974–2016)
Oil & acrylic on canvas
H 30 x W 30 cm
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Untitled 78 2015
Stephen Snoddy (b.1959)
Mixed media on board
H 32.6 x W 46.6 cm
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Keep it All 2010
Claudia Boese (b.1963)
Oil on canvas
H 30 x W 30 cm
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Drip and Line 2013
Andrew Crane (b.1949)
Mixed media on board
H 32 x W 32.5 cm
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