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Benedict Rubbra - Paintings that Speak

Benedict Rubbra is unmistakably his own man & Messums St. James' in London are delighted to present the latest work of this fascinating artist: "My father was the composer Edmund Rubbra and my mother, Antoinette, was a violinist. Their home, where I was born in 1938, was a flint cottage that lay in a secluded valley in the Chiltern Hills. I began to draw the surroundings of my home and then during the summer of 1949 I travelled with my mother on a seminal visit to Florence. The impact of seeing the paintings of Fra Angelico and Masaccio and the work of Donatello and Brunelleschi was the source of my search for an answer to the mystery of their ability to achieve with timeless poetry a perfect balance between control and freedom. I went school at Christ’s Hospital where Nell Todd taught art and immediately I had a friend and teacher who helped and inspired me through my school days. I then gained a place at the Slade School of Fine Art and received my diploma in 1960. Tessa and I married in 1964 and soon after we moved to the home where I was brought up. We kept a few sheep and chickens and a donkey on the hillside behind the cottage. In the garden we planted fruit trees and grew vegetables and shared this setting with our two young children. I began a career as a portraitist in 1970 when a ten-year period of teaching in art schools came to an end. This gave me the freedom to experiment, and in order to show all aspects of my work I built a studio and gallery as an annex to the cottage. Exhibitions of new work were organized every two years until 2001 when I moved with Tessa to start a new life in Devon. ​The core of my work for the last forty years has centered on developing the process of making three-dimensional structures based on ideas principally drawn from the landscape and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. These structures are destined to become the point of departure for paintings and drawings."