Post War & Contemporary Art

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David Blackburn MBE

Blackburn approached landscape as a series of elements that could be re-shaped to communicate “the relationship between the unnoticed and the infinite” - which he believed was the only sincere response any artist could offer their world.

Image: A Landscape Vision #2, 1986 - private collection, UK

 
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Laurence Edwards - A Thousand Tides

Short documentary about sculptor Lawrence Edwards.

I decided to leave a life size bronze figure lying in the mud, to let it slowly sink, joining the Saxon bodies buried at Snape and Sutton Hoo, to create my own archeology and maybe make a myth.

Producer / Director Phil Cairney

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David Bomberg (1890-1957)

Bomberg’s Last Paintings in Ronda - paper delivered as part of the  III International Congress of the History of the Serranía de Ronda organized by the Institute of Studies of Ronda and La Serranía and the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda.

 
 
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Miles Richmond (1922-2008)

An introduction to the English painter - student and friend of David Bomberg, and founding member of the postwar Borough Group of painters.

Producer / Director Phil Cairney