BEANLAND Frank Charles (born
1936)
“Arrangement in Orange, Green &
Blue”
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.
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