JOHN MELVILLE
(1902-1986)

Biography
Painter of figures, portraits, still-life and landscapes in oil and watercolour. Self-taught, he was attracted to Surrealism in 1930 and as a member of the Birmingham Group, joined the Surrealist Group in 1938. He was a contributor to the London Bulletin in 1939, and to Arson in 1942.

He exhibited first in London at the Wertheim Gallery in 1932, and continued to exhibit in London and throughout the UK. His work is represented in a number of important private and public collections and his paintings often showed transformed figures and dream-like, unexpected conjunction of images. During the 1940's he painted portraits and still-life but returned to Surrealism in later works.

 

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