ALAN REYNOLDS

Alan Reynolds Biography

Alan Reynolds (b. 1926)

Alan Reynolds was born in Suffolk and taught himself to paint, having left school at the age of fourteen. He then attended Woolwich School of Art before winning a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art. Originally a figurative painter, Reynolds tended increasingly towards abstraction after coming into contacting with the work of Paul Klee in Germany during the late 1940s. He exhibited with the London Group for the first time in 1950 while he was still a student and in 1955 won a prize in the Giovani Pittori exhibition in Rome. Reynolds also taught at St Martin's School of Art from 1962 and became Senior Lecturer in painting there in 1985. He has exhibited around the world and is represented in the permanent collections of important institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Museum of Canada, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate, and the Berlin National Gallery.