Original Oil on Board 'Santorini' by Frank Beanland - Framed - Initialled with FB Monogram

Lovely abstract inspired by a trip to Santorini in the 1970's. He produced some large canvases and screens on this theme plus some small scale works. These paintings post date his spot paintings. Frank Beanland was a painter and designer in abstract. He was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire and married the artist Emily Gwynne-Jones. He attended Hull College of Art from 1952 to 1957, under D. Booth, and then the Slade School of Fine Art from 1959 to 1961, where his teachers included Claude Rogers. From 1961 to 1962 a Boise Travelling Scholarship took him to Stockholm. Beanland began showing in mixed exhibitions in 1960 at Young Contemporaries, also exhibiting at Drain Galleries, the London Group and Gimpel Fils, Grabowski Gallery, Tooth’s Gallery, Galerie Alphonse Chave, Venice, France. Solo exhibitions include Smith’s Gallery One in 1990 where he showed a series of decorated screens employing oil, aluminium and hardboard. The Slade School, Paintings for Hospitals and Leverhulme Trust hold his work. His spot paintings pre date other artists rendering of the subject matter. Provenance; Purchased directly from Frank.