Din A4 - Ted Reynolds: “Jan Mike homework” and “Despair”

Biography

Born in 1929 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire (UK) First drawings were of horse-drawn milk floats about 6 years old…
1940 Almondbury Grammar School, Huddersfield; then The Salt High School, Shipley, Yorkshire.
1947 National Service. Personal clerk to Field Marshal Montgomery, Dover House, Whitehall.
1949 Sheffield College of Art for five years: National Diploma in Painting, 1953 Obtains good grounding in draughtsmanship from Eric Jones. Two major artists, Jack Smith and Derek Greaves were just graduating from Sheffield and a close friend at Sheffield was John Hoyland, now the leading British abstract painter of today.
Since 1983 resident in Fuengirola, Spain

Image above: Ted Reynolds – “Rosie Lee” and “Dio draws”, drawings on paper

Biography (continue)

A Diploma graduate of the Sheffield College of Art, U.K.
Ted first exhibited with the Sheffield Society of Artists and was then invited to exhibit with the Yorkshire Society of Artists alongside Henry Moore, Alan Davie, David Hockney and John Hoyland in 1957, in Leeds City Art Gallery.

He joined London publishers Faber & Faber, who built a reputation for promoting the best young authors and poets of the day under the guidance of director T.S. Eliot. Took courses in Typography and Book Illustration at the Central School of Art. Paints portrait of Vice Chairman, Peter du Sautoy; paints oils of London squares and landscapes near Epping Forest where he shares a studio with artist Terry Lee.

Image above: Ted Reynolds – Selfportrait, drawing on paper

Exhibitions and chronology

1960 After illustration of 3 Faber books, leaves Faber and spends nine years in Sri Lanka as Art Director to a leading Publishing and Newspaper group
Paints numerous landscapes including tea plantations and later on paints portraits and genre scenes of his children growing up
Expresses his satirical streak as political cartoonist for Sun Newspaper group, Colombo.
1969 - returns to London, practising as freelance designer and illustrator and produces first abstracts in acrylics, gouache and pastels. joins staff of British Oxygen Co., Barnes, west London.
1982 - freelance artist with Strategic Advertising, London; designs display stands for both the British and the Japanese pavilions in Dusseldorf for the International DRUPA print exhibition.
1983 - emigrates to Fuengirola, Spain, works as a freelance artist and graphic designer, one major client being the Salón Varietés, Fuengirola for whom he designed theatre posters and programmes for many years.

Image above: Ted Reynolds – Enchanted pool, (Churriana), acrylic on canvas

Exhibitions (continue)

1993 – a new period of painting is initiated - flower pieces, still life and he explores new media - pastel, oil pastel, acrylic and watercolour. Holds a very successful Retrospective Exhibition of “50 years of Painting” in the Sala de Exposiciones, Los Boliches.(Fuengirola, Spain) 2003 - exhibits with the Málaga Assoc. of Watercolourists and Benalmádena Town Hall purchases his painting "Corrida de Toros, Barcelona.",
In the same year had a one-man show in the Casa de la Cultura, Arroyo de la Miel, Spain, with over 800 visitors.
In October has watercolour in joint show at Sala de Exposiciones, Málaga; the show then transferred to Antequera.(Spain)

Image above: Ted Reynolds – Cabanon, La Madrague, France, oil on canvas

Exhibitions (most recent)

2004 - 2008 exhibits 3 paintings with NAPA at Mariner’s Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall (UK), followed by Retrospective in Riviera Gallery, Fuengirola,(Spain) with permanent exhibition in the gallery where Ted also taught painting in oils and acrylics.
2009 - June, 1st Festival Internacional de Arte Marbella (26 paintings).
October - International Marbella Art Charity, Event Gallery, San Pedro,(18 paintings)
2009 . 2010 Participates in group shows of the Din A4 Project in Malaga (Archivo Municipal and Noche en Blanco, Sala Moreno Villa) and Museo Provincial Santa Rosa, Argentina,

Collections

His works are held in private and other collections in England, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, South Africa and Australia.

Works in permanent collection Patrimonium Din A4, Malaga, Spain