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Wynter studied art at the Slade before moving to Cornwall in 1945, where he lived at the Carn, Zennor – an isolated cottage without running water or electricity. He taught at Bath Academy of Art from 1951 to 1956 until an inheritance allowed him to stop teaching and experiment more freely with his art, as well as with the creative potential of the (then legal) drug mescaline. It was around this time that he started to produce abstract works, influenced by the landscape around him and the erosion of the land by the elements. These paintings were subject to, in the artist’s own words, a ‘process of dynamic versus static elements’ that had ‘attended their development and brought about their final form’. His interest in Surrealism and psychoanalysis further fuelled his personal creative vision.
Title
Torrid Zone/Region
Date
1958
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 142 x W 111 cm
Accession number
AH 14/62
Acquisition method
gift from W. H. Haslam, 1962
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
NOT SIGNED: NAME IN CAPS ON VERSO.