BEANLAND Frank Charles
(born 1936)
“Arrangement in
Painting on board. Circa
1970. Signed on label attached to reverse of frame. IMAGE
Frank Beanland is a painter and designer in abstract. He was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire and is
married to the artist Emily Gwynne-Jones.
He attended Hull College of Art from 1952 to 1957, under D. Booth, and
then the Slade School of Fine Art from 1959 to 1961, where his teachers
included Claude Rogers. From 1961 to
1962 a Boise Travelling Scholarship took him to Stockholm. Beanland began showing in mixed exhibitions
in 1960 at Young Contemporaries, also exhibiting at Drain Galleries, the London
Group and Gimpel Fils, Grabowski Gallery, Tooth’s Gallery, Galerie Alphonse
Chave, Venice, France. Solo exhibitions
include Smith’s Gallery One in 1990 where he showed a series of decorated screens
employing oil, aluminium and hardboard.
The Slade School, Paintings for Hospitals and Leverhulme Trust hold his
work.
