Mary Webb (born 1939) is a British abstract artist.

Biography

Webb was born in London in 1939. She studied Fine Art at

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under British artists Richard Hamilton and

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from 1958 to 1963. She went on to study at the

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, London and taught painting at the Norwich School of Art and Harrogate School of Art. Webb met

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in Paris during the 1960s and cites her as an influence. Webb's paintings and prints are consistently square in shape and exist as an arrangement of vivid squares and rectangles. Her work is held by several public art collections, including the Arts Council Collection, Sainsbury Centre (UEA), Kettle's Yard, and The Sonia Delaunay Collection (Paris). A one-person survey show of her work was held at the

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in 2011 which then toured to the

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, Newcastle University in 2012. Titled ‘Mary Webb: Journeys in Colour’, it contained more than 60 paintings, along with screen prints, drawings and collages including a series of paintings that were inspired by time she spent in

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Exhibitions

*2011 - Journeys In Colour, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England *2012 - Journeys In Colour, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, England *2013 - East Contemporary Art; A Collection of 21st Century Practice, UCS Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich, England *2013 - 2013 Women Collectors, Women Artists, Lloyds Club, London *2015 - Small is Beautiful: Flowers Gallery, London *2018 - Visible Women, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich, UK *2018 - Reverie, Hales Gallery, London, UK

Publications

*Grieve, A & Clark, M (2011) ''Mary Webb: Journeys in Colour.'' Norwich, University of East Anglia: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

References

External links

Contemporary British Painting
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