Fred Cuming RA
1930-2022
Fred Cuming
Painter, born in London, of English, Scottish and Irish descent. A subtle Colourist who specialised in landscapes in Britain and on the continent. He trained at Sidcup School of Art, 1945–9, and after National Service attended Royal College of Art, 1951–5, winning an Abbey Minor Travelling Scholarship which took him to Italy. Was elected RA in 1974. He took part in many mixed shows and had a string of one-man exhibitions, including New Metropole Gallery, Folkestone; Leonie Jonleigh, Guildford; Little Studio, New York; and from the early 1980s a number at New Grafton Gallery. He was joint winner of the Grand Prix Contemporary Art Award, Monte Carlo, 1977; and the Sir Brinsley Ford Award, NEAC, of which he was a member, 1986; and House & Garden Award, 1994.
His work is in a number of British public galleries, including National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; and Monte Carlo Museum. Lived for some years at Ashford, Kent.
Source: Art UK
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Garden, Iden
£4,500
“A truly visionary painter, Fred Cuming has developed the most delicate, painstaking descriptive techniques. He belongs to the great descriptive tradition of English Romantic landscape painting which has flourished for two centuries since Turner and Constable.
Yet what Cuming really does, is to re-invent the world through colour. It is both a recognisable place, which can be visited; and yet a completely transformed object of poetic intensity. His world feels as if it has been dreamt, or remembered from a dream, suffused with feelings that can never quite be named.”