Robyn Denny (1930-2014)

‘ No painting should reveal all it has to say as a kind of instant impact. Abstract painting, that is painting that is not about subject matter, if it is any good should be as diverse, and complex, and strange and unaccountable and unnameable as an experience, as any painting of any consequence has been in the past.  ‘ Robyn Denny, (ISIS art journal interview,1964)

Robyn Denny was one of Britains leading Artistic lights of the 1950s . Inspired the American Abstract artist of the same period he rebelled against the traditional schools of St Ives and the landscape artists of the time and yanked the British art scene up by the collar to make it current and relevant to the times.

Robyn Denny was born in 1930 in Surrey and went through the London Art Schools in the early 1950s. By the early 1960s Denny had arrived at his mature style of abstraction. - pared down and so ahead of its time. In 1966, Denny was selected, alongside Anthony Caro, Richard Smith, and Bernard and Harold Cohen - to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale and in 1973 was to become the youngest artist ever to be given a retrospective by the Tate.

Portraits

Framed, £850 each