The McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, 26 November – 23 December, 1959 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, 31);
London, Agnew’s, John Tunnard, September – October 2011 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 13);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 6 March – 15 April 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Dreams and Nightmares, 22 May – 15 July 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, Landscapes of the Mind, 1 January – 28 February 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
John Tunnard painted semi-abstract works and was influenced by the work of Paul Klee, Joan Miró and fellow St Ives artist Ben Nicholson. He was an avid naturalist and drew on his observations of the minutiae of nature to provide a source of imagery for his art. He trained in design at the Royal Academy of Art and became a master of artistic technique. This combined with his unique visual imagination produced a body of impressive works. Arena was shown in 1959 and a critic for Arts News and Review commented on the exhibition, “His attention is arrested by the relationship of an object to its surroundings, he absorbs the effects of changing light, the chiaroscuro of falling night and all that he has seen, felt, is later transferred into his paintings.”
