Bob Bourne

Painting

Bob Bourne’s landscape and interior paintings are defined by simple forms and a clear, pure palette of colours. Having painted for over fifty years, he has developed a quiet, yet emotionally powerful way of making paintings, which are at once both figurative and abstract in their simple arrangement of shape and colour.

Bob Bourne was born in Exmouth, Devon in 1931. As a child during the Second World War, he was evacuated to Bermuda, before returning to England to attend school in Brighton. He studied at the West of England College of Art from 1944 -to 1959 but is primarily a self-taught painter. He now works at his studio in Penzance, West Cornwall, and has exhibited extensively in the South West and London. Selected solo exhibitions: 2011 'Bourne at Eighty', Belgrave St Ives; 2008 'Recent Paintings', Penhaven Gallery, St Ives; 2005 The Town Mill Gallery, Lyme Regis; 2003 Maltby Gallery, Winchester; 2001 Cobra & Bellamy, London; 2002 Rainyday Gallery, Penzance; 1986 'Bob Bourne and Max Barrett', Penwith Society of Arts; 1981 The Salthouse, St Ives; 1974 The Fire Station, Perth, Western Australia; 1973 Langton Gallery, London; 1973 Arthur Tooth & Sons, London; 1968 Penwith Gallery, St Ives;