A wonderful friend, and one of Britain's greatest painters, Greaves was 95.
Derrick Greaves was one of the most important British painters of the seventy years. He initially gained acclaim in the 1950s, when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with the other 'Kitchen-Sink' painters with whom he was initially associated: John Bratby, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith. His work soon developed from the social realism of the 1950s to a more heraldic style that paralleled 1960s Pop Art, from an imagery based on nature and observable fact to more studio-bound imaginative constructs. He continued to paint into his 95th year and his recent exhibitions were filled with major works painted in response to the pandemic.
More information can be found here: http://www.derrickgreaves.com
