Trevor Bell
Trevor Bell (1930–2017) was a major figure in post-war British abstraction, closely associated with St Ives and recognised for paintings in which colour, landscape, scale and dynamic form become intensely physical experiences.
Biography
Born in Leeds in 1930, Trevor Bell became closely associated with the post-war generation of artists working in St Ives. Cornwall's landscape, coastline and changing light became important foundations for an abstract language concerned with sensation rather than literal representation.
Bell later spent a substantial period in the United States, extending the scale and physical ambition of his work. Across his career, colour and form were used to translate the experience of landscape into paintings that could feel expansive, rhythmic and architectural.
His shaped canvases and large-scale abstractions pushed painting beyond the conventional rectangular support, making the physical form of the work part of the composition itself.
Available works
Highlights
- A significant figure within the post-war St Ives generation of British abstraction.
- Landscape was a persistent point of departure, translated into colour, movement and spatial tension rather than literal description.
- Bell's shaped canvases challenged the conventional boundaries of painting and gave his work a sculptural presence.
- His years in America contributed to the increasingly ambitious scale of his mature paintings.
- Later works such as Windover Five retain the expansive energy and environmental scale central to his mature practice.
At Indelible
Indelible's Trevor Bell collection includes works spanning different periods of his career. Featured here are Mask (2008), Windover Five (2014) and Bevel (2001), each linked directly to its current product page.
The website currently displays these three works at £0, so they are shown here as Enquire for price rather than assigning an unconfirmed value.
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