Biography
Painter and teacher, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, where he attended the College of Art, 1947-52. For several years until the mid-50’s he then taught at Harrogate College of Art.

On the suggestion of the painter Terry Frost, Bell and his wife sold up their home and motorcycled to Cornwall to work in St. Ives. In Yorkshire Bell had painted industrial landscapes, but in Cornwall his work took a new direction, and while still landscape-based, he became concerned with land-shape and sea interactions, creating abstract pictures.

In 1959 he won the Paris Bienniale International Painting Prize (with the piece featured on this website) and after short periods in Italy, Bell took up a Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University in 1960. A number of teaching posts in Britain and America followed, until in the mid-1970’s he returned to Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Bell exhibited with the Penwith Society of Arts from 1956, and at the Tate gallery and New Art Centre in group shows. In 1995 a group of his pictures was exhibited at the Tate Gallery St Ives, and in 1995-6 he was included in the John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool.

Bell had a series of solo exhibitions at Waddington Galleries from 1958; Whitechapel Art Gallery; Florida State University; and in 1998 The New Millenium Art Gallery, St. Ives celebrated Bell’s return to Cornwall with his first major show at a private venue since his return to Britain. He is represented in the Tate and the collection of The Arts Council of England.

Solo Exhibitions
2004 Gillian Jason Modern & Contemporary Art at Berkeley Square Gallery
2003 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives
Trevor Bell: A British Painter in America, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
2003 Gillian Jason, Modern & Contemporary Art, Stand 51, ART2003
2002 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago
Galerie Pelar Ltd, Greenport, New York
Seven Worchester, Bath
2001 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago
New Millennium Gallery, St. Ives
2000 North Light Gallery, Huddersfield
1999 Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
1998 Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth
1996 Illinois Centre, Chicago
1995 Art Collectors Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
Mercantile Exchange Building, Chicago
Marsha Orr Contemporary Fine Art, Tallahassee, Florida
1994 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago
1993 Division of Cultural Affairs, Tallahassee, Florida
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago
Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1992 Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago
Jaffe/Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
620 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
1991 Gloria Luria Gallery, Florida Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago
1990 Foster Harmon Gallery, Florida
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago
Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Gillian Jason Gallery, London
1989 New Art Centre, London
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bal Harbour, Florida
1988 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Charleston College, South Carolina
1986 Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
1985 Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gates, Miami, Florida
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bal Harbour, Florida
1984 Big Magenta installation, Florida State University Center for Professional Development, Tallahassee, Florida
1983 Shaped Work from the 60’s Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
1982 National Academy of Science, Washington DC
Artspace, Miami, Florida
1981 Intimate Works on Paper, Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida
Artspace, Miami, Florida
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
1980 Five Bar exhibited, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Four Arts Center, Institute for Contemporary Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Major Works Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida
1975 Southern Cross exhibited, Bundestag, Born, Germany
1973 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1970 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Park Square Gallery, Leeds
1969 Lancaster University Greenwich Gallery, London
1964 Waddington Gallery, London
1963 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
1960 Waddington Gallery, London
1958 Waddington Gallery, London
1957 Wakefield City Art Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Seven Worchester Terrace, Bath
1999 Tate Gallery, St. Ives
Harewood House, Yorkshire
1998 Galerija Keleia, Celje, Slovenia
Harewood House, Yorkshire
Tate Gallery, St. Ives
1997 Gallery Arni, Seoul, S. Korea
Harrogate Festival, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
New Millennium Gallery, St. Ives
Museum Celje, Slovenia
1996 Tate Gallery, St. Ives
Manif International, Seoul, S. Korea
1995 Tate Gallery, St. Ives
Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London
John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool
1994 Art Collectors Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida
British Abstraction Flowers East Gallery, London
ISIS Gallery, Leigh on Sea
1993 Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Abstrategies, Dunedin Art Center, Dunedin, Florida
Summer Exhibition, Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Inaugural Exhibition, Tate Gallery, St. Ives
1990 St. Ives Exhibition, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
1989 Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bal Harbour, Florida
1988 Gloria Luria Gallery, Bal Harbour, Florida
1987 Museum of Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bal Harbour, Florida
1986 Adventures in Image Making: Selections from E.F. Hutton Collection, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
1985 Painting 1984-5 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
St. Ives 1939-64 Tate Gallery, London
1984 Major Florida Artists Invitational
1983 Major Florida Artists Invitational
1982 Florida Art Fellows, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburgh, Florida
Major Florida Artists Invitational, Foster Harmon Gallery, Florida
Florida Painting, Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida
1981 Major Florida Artists Invitational, Foster Harmon Gallery, Florida
Drawing International, Valencia College, Orlando, Florida
1979 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
1978 Spoleto Festival International, Charleston, South Carolina
1977 Curwen Press Prints Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
Arts Festival, Jacksonville, Florida
1976 Works on Paper, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
1974 London Group, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1973 Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
1962 The Gregory Fellows, Leeds Art Gallery

Selected Public Collections
Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Arts Council of Great Britain
American Express
Astra Zeneca, Boston, Massachussetts
Balliol College, Oxford
Barnett Bank, Florida
British Council
British Museum
Broward County Courthouse, Florida
Clearwater Federal, Clearwater, Florida
Coca-Cola World Headquarters, Florida
Contemporary Arts Society
Department of Management Services, Tallahassee, Florida
Department of Transportation, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
Education Authority, Hull
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Georgia
Florida House of Representatives, Tallahassee, Florida
Florida Power and Light, Miami, Florida
Florida State University Museum, Florida
Getty Center for the History of Art, Los Angeles, California
IBM Collection, Atlanta, Boca Raton, Florida and New York
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Leeds City Museum
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
Leon County Civic Center, Tallahassee, Florida
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Northwest Regional Data Center, State University System, Florida
Orlando Aviation Authority, Florida
Park Bank, Sarasota, Florida
Pegasus Solutions, Dallas Texas
Philips International, Eindhoven, Holland
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Playboy Corporation Collection, Chicago
Polk Museum, Florida
Prudential Insurance Collection
Regency Group Collection
Rouse Company Collection
Rugby Library, Gallery & Museum
Shearson Lehman Hutton Collection, New York
Slaughter and May, London
Southern Bell, Jacksonville, Florida
St. Anne’s College, Oxford
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford
Tate Gallery, London
Trinity College, Oxford
University of Leeds
University of Stirling
University of Sussex, Brighton
U.V.U Keleia Collection, Ljubljana
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wakefield City Art Gallery
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester