Biography
Alan Green (b. London 1932 - d. 2003) studied at Beckenham School of Art (1949-53) and the Royal College of Art (1955-58) and wanted to create ‘ordinary paintings as ordinary as the real world’. This came from his belief that, in the second half of the twentieth century, artists carried too much baggage to be able to experience ‘things’. Green was one of the great British abstract artists whose formative years were spent in London in the 1960s. He was trained as an illustrator and graphic designer which freed him from the theoretical constraints of art history. In the mid–1960s he made field paintings (which were remarkably advanced for their time) in which his colour and its application dictated the form. His paintings are deliberately non-emotional and controlled. He taught at Hornsey College of Art, Leeds Polytechnic and Ravensbourne College of Art
