Kathleen Guthrie @ Modern British Art Gallery

From the 1930’s onwards Kathleen Guthrie (1905-1981) exhibited widely, and her work from this period, consisting mostly of still-lifes, landscapes and genre scenes, was painted in a whimsical figurative style.

She was a member of the group of constructivist artists led by Ben Nicholson. From this point on her work moved increasingly towards abstraction. In the 1960’s she embarked on her Camelot Series, bold, hard-edged compositions of contrasting forms arranged as pure fields of colour. In the mid 60’s Kathleen was introduced to silk screen printing and became one the most accomplished practitioners of her generation.