roy turner durrant

WANTED ……. we are currently looking to acquire work by this artist so do contact us if you have one to sell.

Roy Turner Durrant is one of Suffolk’s unsung artistic talents !

Painter and poet, Durrant was born Lavenham, Suffolk on 4th Oct 1925. He was to later run Heffers Gallery in Cambridge , and as Cambridge is where Melanie and I first met it is fitting that we should hold his work . It is also held by Kettles yard in Cambridge which has to be one of our favourite places to visit , and if you have not been then you should!

He studied at Camberwell School of Art 1948-52 under Pasmore, and Keith Vaughan; who would prove the more lastingly influence on his work. By the time he graduated he was already exhibiting with Beaux Arts Gallery while still a student and Durrant emerged from Camberwell in the second wave of neo-Romantics, with Craxton, Minton and of course Vaughan as his contemporaries. He was also a member of the New English Art Club, from the late 1940s he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and in numerous commercial galleries in London.

In the 1950s he moved to Cambridge. At this time his early figurative style began to change, becoming more abstract and formally simplified. The work we have on offer here at Blondes Fine Art in Hertfordshire is a good example of work from this period.

Today his work is held in many public collections including the University of Cambridge - Kettles Yard Collection and the Imperial War Museum and in 2008 The Fine Art Society, London, held a major one-man show of his work.