A. V. Smith;
Gladys M. Jewett, 1975;
The Robert Devereux Collection, 2005
Exhibition History:
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 6 March – 15 April 2012;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Taking Flight – St Ives in the 1950s, 26 June – 3 October 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
London, Mall Galleries, The Art of Collecting, 27 June – 6 July 2018;
Woking, The Lightbox, The St Ives School, 6 April – 23 June 2019;
Bristol, RWA, St Ives: Movements in Art and Life, 14 March – 19 September 2020
Literature:
Michael Bird, Bryan Wynter, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2010 (illustrated, pl. 66, p. 75)
Bryan Wynter escaped from the tropes of figurative painting by undertaking controlled experiments with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1950s as well as undertaking underwater diving and filming in the 1960s. Instead of running his father’s laundry business he ran off to Cornwall and settled in a remote cottage where he read Freud and Jung’s theories on the psychology of the unconscious. Wynter was seen as one of the closest British equivalents and rivals to the American Abstract-Expressionists painters, along with home-grown artists Heron, Lanyon, Scott and Frost.
