Oscar Mellor
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Oscar Mellor was an English surrealist artist and photographer. An associate of the Birmingham Surrealists in the 1940s, he founded the Fantasy Press after his move to Oxford in 1948, publishing works
Surreal beachscape, oil painting by Oscar Mellor, 1959
William Gear
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William Gear RA RBSA was a Scottish painter and printmaker, notable for his abstract compositions. He was also a teacher, museum curator and in World War II an army officer.
Oscar Mellor
…of avant-garde artists ignored by the conservative Royal Birmingham Society of Artists - exhibiting with them alongside artists such as John Melville, William Gear, Emmy Bridgwater and Desmond Morris between 1947 and 1951. Moving to Oxford in 1948 to continue his studies, he established himself as a publisher and…
Gear in his Edgbaston studio, August 1979
'Landscape' Sep 1951, oil on canvas
'Landscape with Orange' May 1961, oil on canvas
The blue plaque at Gear's house, Edgbaston, Birmingham