Alan Reynolds 1926 - 2014

In Germany in 1946 he first saw the work of Paul Klee, whose writings also influence him profoundly. He studied at Woolwich Polytechnic from 1948-52, and then at the Royal College of Art, 1952-3. He taught at the Central School 1954-61 and St Martin’s from 1961. He first exhibited with the London group in 1950, and from 1952 to 1974 with the Redfern Gallery. Since then he has exhibited in many national and international exhibitions all over the world, and simialrly his work is in many public collections in many countries (e.g. The Tate Gallery, The Museum of Modern ARt, New York, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the National Galleries of New South Wales, Adelaide and Melbourne, etc). For many years he was best known for landscape paintings in oils and gouache of considerable romantic intensity, in which plant and tree forms were treated almost as botanical studies whilst tightly intergrated with the earth and sky. His work has passed though different phases, however, and between 1958 and 1966 he painted abstracts in oil and watercolour; in 1969 he constructed his first painted wooden reliefs and between 1975 and 1978 he made further constuctional reliegs, orthogonal in form, and free standing painted structures. More recently he has developed white modular reliefs and constructions of an austere, rectilinear, formal character, concerned with ratio and proportion.

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Alan Reynolds Paintings and Drawings

Moth Barn Interior 3

Alan Reynolds: Moth Barn Interior 3, 1952

The Well at Cleveley

Alan Reynolds: The Well at Cleveley, 1952

Chalk Path, Early Autumn

Alan Reynolds: Chalk Path, Early Autumn, 1953-54

Group of Compositions (The Seasons)

Alan Reynolds: Group of Compositions (The Seasons), 1955

Legend in December

Alan Reynolds: Legend in December, 1955

Forms on an Ovoid Ground

Alan Reynolds: Forms on an Ovoid Ground, 1962

Small Structure

Alan Reynolds: Small Structure, 1965