John Brunsdon

[1] Brunsdon is considered one of the finest British printmakers and is represented in many major public collections such as the Tate Gallery, the Scottish Museum of Modern Art, the V&A, the Arts Council, MOMA in New York and the British Council.

Inspired initially by the great American abstract expressionists (and artists such as Yves Klein) Brunsdons' early work in monochrome as well as colour assured his reputation.

By the 1970s Brunsdons' work became more figurative and led by landscape [4] and turned further again to a more representational style in his later life.

From 1958 to 1963 he was resident at Digswell House when he began teaching portrait painting part-time at St. Albans School of Art.

In 1969 he established the printmaking department at St Albans College of Art, where he taught full-time for 16 years as Head of Printmaking while exhibiting extensively in Britain and abroad, until moving to Stradbroke in Suffolk in 1977 and then to Cole Street, Wilby in 1983.