School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Merlyn Oliver Evans

Born: 1910, UK, Wales, Cardiff, Llandaff   Died: 1973, London

Painter, printmaker and sculptor. Son of an analytical chemist. Grew up in Glasgow. Studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1927-30, and at the Royal College of Art, 1932-33. Worked in Stanley Hayter's Paris studio, 'Atelier 17', 1934-36. Taught at the Natal Technical College in South Africa, 1938-42, before serving in the Second World War in North Africa, Syria and Italy. He later taught painting at the Royal College of Art, 1965-73. In 1966 he won the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod. He made paintings and prints of surreal abstracts

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Helmet Mask PR1904 Prints

St Ives Beach PR2000 Prints




 
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