Brian Bishop

BRIAN BISHOP studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art and has taught art in a number of art colleges from the mid 1960's till the present day. His list of awards, prizes and bursaries is considerable and includes a Young Contemporaries Award for Sculpture, a Royal College of Art Travelling Scholarship, a British Council Travel Grant (to Norway), and a Prix de la Chambre de Metiers de la Haute-Garonne, France. His list of exhibitions is even more substantial and includes one-person shows at the Oxford Gallery in Oxford, 'Rituals' Galeries Le Duplex, in Le Havre, Anatol Orient in London and Galerie Ellison-Marshall in Bordeaux. His paintings and other works of art are to be found in a large number of public, commercial and private collections in UK and Europe.

"Art is that thing having to do only with itself"

My work is an attempt to explore images by removing the pictorial narrative and moving wholly into pictorial space, an area visited by not only the painter but also the architect, sculptor, composer and dance choreographer. These images are works that demonstrate the breadth of engagement with colour and structure that has occupied me for many years. They are works of a non-narrative nature, they do not inform with text or images drawn from the world about us. So, allow your imagination to explore and make a fresh interpretation in order to discover a world of colour and structure in the same way that you would listen to a piece of music. Leaving any preconceptions behind, endeavour to approach these works with an open mind.

Brian Bishop  A.R.C.A.

"Colours must have a mystical capacity for spiritual expression, without being tied to objects" - Johannes Itten