Ivon Hitchens

Ivon Hitchens (born London, 3 March 1893 – 29 August 1979) was an English painter who started exhibiting during the 1920s.

Hitchens and his family abandoned London for the Sussex countryside, where he acquired a small area of woodland on Lavington Common (near Petworth), and lived there in a caravan, which he gradually augmented with a series of buildings.

Hitchens is particularly well known for panoramic landscape paintings created from blocks of colour.

There is a huge mural by him in the main hall of Cecil Sharp House.

His work was exhibited in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1956.