Albert Irvin RA (British b.1922)
Irvin's large-scale abstract paintings are amongst the most compelling and distinctive produced in Britain today. Paul Moorhouse, Tate curator and author of the book Albert Irvin: Life to Painting, wrote of him: 'even to those familiar with his work, seeing a new painting by Irvin can be an extraordinary experience akin to discovering a young, energetic artist in the first flush of ambition. Given the force of its restless energy, its freshness and the sense it communicates of an artist in love with his chosen activity, it is even more surprising to realise that this is the work of an artist in his late seventies.'
