Alan Reynolds (b. 1926)

Alan Reynolds, born in Newmarket, Suffolk, left school at fourteen and worked at various jobs while teaching himself to paint. During his military service in Germany in the Second World War he came across the work of Paul Klee and the German Expressionist artists of Der Blaue Reiter and was greatly influenced by them. After the war he studied at the Woolwich Polytechnic (1948-52), and then at the Royal College (1952-53). He first exhibited with the London Group in 1950, while still a student, and was a prize-winner in the Giovani Pittori exhibition in Rome in 1955. He taught at the Central School (1954-61), and then at St Martin’s School of Art from 1961, becoming Senior Lecturer in Painting there in 1985.