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Life
        Born 1931, Small Heath, Birmingham

        Died 2020, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
Educated    
        Birmingham College of Arts
        Royal College of Art 1st Class Honours and                  silver medal for Painting
Appointments
        1957 Associate of the Royal College
        Lecturer Birmingham College of Art
        Lecturer Birmingham Polytechnic Institute of

Art and Design
        1974 Head of School of Painting
        Course Director, BA (Fine Arts)
        1975-78 West Midlands Arts, Fine Art Panel
        1982 Early retirement to pursue full time painting
One Man Exhibitions
        RBSA Galleries 1961-64,75,78,81,83,86,88,94
        Ikon Gallery, 1970
        Birmingham and Midland Institute 1972,73,75
        Robert Welch Gallery, 1974
        Birmingham University, Faculty of Arts, 1975
        University of Aston, 1980
        Timaeus Gallery, 1981
        Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, 1983
        Thackeray Gallery, London, 1983,84,86
        Keele University, 1985
        National Museum of Wales, 1985
        Christopher Hull Gallery, London, 1985
        Tegfryn Gallery, Menai, 1987
        Birmingham Centenary Artist, 1989

        Artifex Gallery, 2010-2016
Mixed Exhibitions
        
Young Contemporaries, 1956
        Royal Academy London, Summer Exhibitions
        John Moores, Liverpool, 1958
        Glasgow Institute Centenary, 1961
        Four Cities, Frankfurt, Germany, 1961
        Midland Artists Today, contemporary

Watercolours
        Ikon, The English Landscape
        Usher Gallery, Lincoln,
        King Street Gallery, Prints Exhibition
        Serpentine Gallery, Printmakers Workshop
        Edinburgh
        Hong Kong Arts Centre, 1984
        Tegfryn Gallery
        Thackeray Gallery
        New Work, Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1976
        RBSA Annual Exhibitions

Work in Public Collections

        Bradford City Gallery
        Lichfield City Arts Gallery
        Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
        Arts Council of Great Britain
        Walsall Education Committee 
        West Midlands Arts
        National Museum of Wales
        University of Wales
        Birmingham Polytechnic
Commissions
        Wilmot Breeden Truflo, 1973, 74, 75, 76
        Warwickshire County Cricket Club
        Alexander Howden Jubilee Award, Great Britain
        Achievements, 1977
        Stratford Cricket Club, 1985
        Norgren Martonair Ltd. 1987
        Old Veeseyan Association, 1989
        Hotel Metropole, 1992
        Tarmac plc, 1995
Publications 
        London Illustrated News
        Young Artist of Promise
        The Birmingham School (Birmingham City Art           Gallery)
        New York Times
        Birmingham Convention and Visitor Bureau               Manual, 1992 

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Roy Abell was a Birmingham based Artist specialising in figurative and landscape paintings in oil and watercolour.

© 2017 Roy Abell - ARCA RBSA

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