London, The Redfern Gallery, Derwent Lees, Elsa Vaudrey, Michael Rothenstein, Bryan Wynter, 10 April – 3 May 1947 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 141);
Woking, The Lightbox, Is there still life in Still Life? 15 July – 1 October 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
Woking, The Lightbox, The St Ives School, 6 April – 23 June 2019;
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, War and Rumours of War: 1940s British works on paper from The Hepworth Wakefield, 6 July – 15 September 2019
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. One of his earlier works, Still Life was painted at a time when Wynter was not yet engaging with abstraction.
