Bryan Wynter

Bryan Wynter ( born September 8, 1915 in London, † February 2nd 1975 in Penzance (Cornwall ), England ) was an English painter.

Bryan Wynter was originally intended for there to continue the business of his family to go to Zurich, instead he rebelled and went to London in 1938 and studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art, he moved in 1945 to St Ives in Cornwall and found connection to the British group of painters St Ives Group, which Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, William Scott and Roger Hilton included, among other things.

In the 50s Wynter experimented with drugs, especially with mescaline. The noise experiences had an influence on his work, the painting was clearly more abstract. The main source of his inspiration, however, remains the landscape of Cornwall.

In 1959, Bryan Wynter was at the documenta II in Kassel.

In 1962, Winter had a heart attack. He experimented for some time with Kinetic Art. Some notable objects of this period are his kinetic sculptures that he ( Images Moving Out Onto Space) called " IMOOS ", consisting of parabolic mirrors and freely rotating, painted fabrics. In the last ten years of his life he was back to painting.

Literature and sources

• Gooding, Mel / Clark, Jonathan Bryan Wynter 1915-1975 ( exhibition catalog Fine Art ), London, 2002