TREVOR BELL
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<strong>TREVOR</strong> <strong>BELL</strong><br />
British, born Leeds, 1930<br />
Trevor Bell was born in Leeds in 1930. He was awarded a scholarship to attend The Leeds<br />
College of Art from 1947 to 1952 and, encouraged by Terry Frost, moved to Cornwall in 1955. St<br />
Ives was the epicentre for British abstract art, being the home to artists such as Patrick Heron,<br />
Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth and Terry Frost. He made his<br />
reputation as a leading member of the group who helped establish British Art on the<br />
international stage. From these artists, especially Nicholson, Bell received advice and support.<br />
Nicholson, alongside his then dealer Charles Gimpel, encouraged him to show in London and<br />
Waddington Galleries gave Bell his first solo exhibition in 1958. Patrick Heron wrote the<br />
introduction to the exhibition catalogue, stating that Bell was ‘the best non-figurative painter<br />
under thirty’.<br />
In 1959 Bell was awarded the Paris Biennale International Painting Prize and an Italian<br />
Government Scholarship. In the following year he was offered the Gregory Fellowship in<br />
Painting at the University of Leeds whose advisors at the time were Sir Herbert Read and Henry<br />
Moore. It was during this period that Bell developed his shaped canvases, setting his work apart<br />
from other artists of his generation.<br />
Throughout the 1960’s Bell showed work in major exhibitions in the UK and USA and during this<br />
time his work was first purchased for the Tate collection. In 1973 he presented his new work at<br />
the Whitechapel Gallery in London, having just taken part in a major exhibition at the Corcoran<br />
Gallery in Washington DC. Over the course of the next thirty years Bell combined painting with<br />
teaching in various locations eventually moving to Florida State University in 1976 to become<br />
the Professor for Master Painting. Here with the provision of a warehouse-sized studio and time<br />
to really develop his painting he produced the large-scale, intensely coloured works, reflecting<br />
the influence of the climate and landscape on him and his work. He went on to spend the next<br />
20 years in America. Important exhibitions were held at the Corcoran Gallery and the Academy<br />
of Sciences in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum in Miami, The Cummer Gallery and the<br />
Museum of Art at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<br />
In 1985 Bell was included in St Ives 1939-64, a seminal exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London,<br />
and in 1993 he was part of the inaugural show of the Tate St Ives. Moving from Florida in 1996<br />
he established his studios near Penzance, Cornwall and continued to exhibit in London, the USA<br />
and St Ives. Bell had a major solo exhibition at the Tate St Ives in 2004 and, in 2011, a further 14<br />
works were obtained by the Tate Gallery for their permanent collection. Bell has had works<br />
purchased and commissioned by numerous other international museums and public and private<br />
collections including (among others) The Arts Council of England, British Council, British<br />
Museum, Laing Art Gallery, Ljubljana’s U.V.U Keleia Collection and the Victoria & Albert<br />
Museum. Bell was twice a recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Council of Florida, an<br />
Honorary member of the Royal West of England Academy, an Honorary Fellow of University<br />
College Falmouth and an Emeritus Professor of Florida State University.<br />
Trevor Bell has been represented by Waterhouse & Dodd for ten years and has held four<br />
previous solo exhibitions at both our London and New York galleries.<br />
The Underwater, 1959<br />
Mixed media on paper<br />
19.25 x 14.25 in / 49 x 36 cm<br />
A storm wave breaking at<br />
Sennen Cove, Cornwall<br />
Selected Solo Exhibitions<br />
2014 The wind the space, Millennium Gallery, St Ives<br />
2013 Across the Gulf Stream,<br />
Museum of Fine Art, Orlando, Florida<br />
2012 Link, Millennium Gallery, St Ives<br />
2011 80 Years Young, Waterhouse & Dodd, New York<br />
2010 Nothing Extra, Waterhouse & Dodd, London<br />
Trevor Bell at Eighty; Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Aether,<br />
Millennium Gallery, St Ives<br />
2009 Haste Slowly, Millennium Gallery, St Ives<br />
Moving Right Along, Waterhouse & Dodd, London<br />
Nothing Extra, Leeds University Gallery<br />
2007 White & Colour, New Millennium Gallery, St Ives<br />
2006 Before Sea – After Earth, Waterhouse & Dodd, London<br />
Before Sea – After Earth, Said Gallery,Said Business School,<br />
University of Oxford, Oxford<br />
2005 Still – The New Paintings, Lydon Fine Art, Chicago<br />
Trevor Bell: Heatscape – The Florida Six and Still – The New<br />
Paintings, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth<br />
Calm Squares, Allusive Forms,<br />
New Millennium Gallery, St Ives<br />
Recent Work, Lydon Fine Art, Chicago<br />
2004 Beyond Materiality: Paintings and Drawings 1967-2004,<br />
Tate Gallery, St Ives<br />
2003 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives<br />
Trevor Bell: A British Painter in America,<br />
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts,<br />
Tallahassee, Florida<br />
The Gulf Coast Museum, Largo, Florida<br />
2002 Galerie Pelar Ltd, Greenport, New York<br />
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago<br />
Seven Worchester Terrace, Bath<br />
2001 New Millennium Gallery, St. Ives<br />
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago<br />
2000 North Light Gallery, Huddersfield<br />
1999 Stephen Lacey Gallery, London<br />
1998 Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, Florida<br />
Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth<br />
1996 Illinois Centre, Chicago<br />
1995 Art Collectors Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida<br />
Mercantile Exchange Building, Chicago<br />
Marsha Orr Contemporary Fine Art, Tallahassee, Florida<br />
1994 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago<br />
1993 Division of Cultural Affairs, Tallahassee, Florida<br />
1993 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago<br />
Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan<br />
1992 Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Florida<br />
Jaffe/Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida<br />
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago<br />
1991 Gloria Luria Gallery, Florida Center for the Arts,<br />
Vero Beach, Florida<br />
1990 Foster Harmon Gallery, Florida<br />
1990 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago<br />
Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia<br />
Gillian Jason Gallery, London<br />
1989 New Art Centre, London<br />
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida<br />
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bal Harbour, Florida<br />
1988 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida<br />
Charleston College, South Carolina<br />
1986 Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Florida<br />
Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, Florida<br />
1985 Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gates, Miami, Florida<br />
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bal Harbour, Florida<br />
1984 Big Magenta installation, Florida State University<br />
Center for Professional Development, Tallahassee, Florida<br />
1983 Shaped Work from the 60’s<br />
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida<br />
1982 National Academy of Science, Washington DC<br />
Artspace, Miami, Florida<br />
1981 Intimate Works on Paper, Virginia Miller Gallery,<br />
Coral Gables, Florida<br />
Artspace, Miami, Florida<br />
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida<br />
1980 Five Bar exhibited, Florida State University, Florida<br />
Four Arts Institute for Contemporary Art<br />
Florida State University, Florida<br />
1975 Southern Cross exhibited, Bundestag, Bonn, Germany<br />
1974 Corcoran Gallery, Washington<br />
1973 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London<br />
1970 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh<br />
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast<br />
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield<br />
1969 Indulgences and Disciplines; works on paper<br />
Lancaster University & Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London<br />
1963 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford<br />
1961 Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles<br />
1958 Waddington Gallery, London<br />
(3 subsequent exhibitions in 1960, 1962 and 1964)
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