from Oxford Garden Suite, 1977
Ivor Abrahams who died on 6th January was an artist whose work was amazingly diverse – he sculpted, painted, printed and worked in ceramics in both traditional and more experimental ways.
Born in Wigan in 1935 he was taken on a childhood visit to the exotic roof-garden at Derry & Toms in Kensington [see Post July 4, 2014]. This sparked his interest in gardens and apparently convinced him he wanted to be an artist, to his mother’s pleasure and his father’s fury: “He had hoped for Perry Mason or Dr Spock, or at least an accountant in the family.”
His work developed and changed, sometimes dramatically, over the rest of his life, although he had several constant themes, returning time and again to urban landscapes, classical figures, the sea – and gardens.
Read on to see some of his garden-related works and find out more about the artist who was described as “our greatest interpreter of the suburban dream.”
All the images in this post, unless otherwise stated, are from his own website http://www.ivorabrahams.com
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