GEORGE DANNATT (1915-2009) - Receive artist alerts » - More items from this artist »

Mixed Media on Board

Signed & Dated 1974-80

25.00cm wide    21.00cm high    (9.84 inches wide  8.27 inches high)

George Dannatt was born in Blackheath, London in 1915. He initially qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1940 and joined the family business, whilst simultaneously working as a freelance music critic until 1956.

By 1963 George Dannatt was regularly visiting Cornwall and began his artistic career seriously, encouraged and influenced by the artists he associated with in and around Newlyn and St. Ives. Between 1970 and 1983 he showed his work at St Ives Penwith Gallery, and from 1973 regularly exhibited at the Newlyn Art Gallery, becoming a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. From 1980 until his death George Dannatt exhibited widely in London galleries, and throughout Britain, Switzerland and Germany, both in one-man and group exhibitions.

The precision and balance in his paintings are a testament to the influence of the Constructivist movement, in particular by the artists Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo. He was obsessive that his paintings should possess an underlying structure, and considered that “abstract art has a vitality when it grows out of the artists experience”.

George Dannatt died in 2009.