Life
Born 1931, Small Heath, Birmingham
Died 2020, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
Educated
Birmingham College of Arts
Royal College of Art 1st Class Honours and silver medal for Painting
Appointments
1957 Associate of the Royal College
Lecturer Birmingham College of Art
Lecturer Birmingham Polytechnic Institute of
Art and Design
1974 Head of School of Painting
Course Director, BA (Fine Arts)
1975-78 West Midlands Arts, Fine Art Panel
1982 Early retirement to pursue full time painting
One Man Exhibitions
RBSA Galleries 1961-64,75,78,81,83,86,88,94
Ikon Gallery, 1970
Birmingham and Midland Institute 1972,73,75
Robert Welch Gallery, 1974
Birmingham University, Faculty of Arts, 1975
University of Aston, 1980
Timaeus Gallery, 1981
Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, 1983
Thackeray Gallery, London, 1983,84,86
Keele University, 1985
National Museum of Wales, 1985
Christopher Hull Gallery, London, 1985
Tegfryn Gallery, Menai, 1987
Birmingham Centenary Artist, 1989
Artifex Gallery, 2010-2016
Mixed Exhibitions
Young Contemporaries, 1956
Royal Academy London, Summer Exhibitions
John Moores, Liverpool, 1958
Glasgow Institute Centenary, 1961
Four Cities, Frankfurt, Germany, 1961
Midland Artists Today, contemporary
Watercolours
Ikon, The English Landscape
Usher Gallery, Lincoln,
King Street Gallery, Prints Exhibition
Serpentine Gallery, Printmakers Workshop
Edinburgh
Hong Kong Arts Centre, 1984
Tegfryn Gallery
Thackeray Gallery
New Work, Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1976
RBSA Annual Exhibitions
Work in Public Collections
Bradford City Gallery
Lichfield City Arts Gallery
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Arts Council of Great Britain
Walsall Education Committee
West Midlands Arts
National Museum of Wales
University of Wales
Birmingham Polytechnic
Commissions
Wilmot Breeden Truflo, 1973, 74, 75, 76
Warwickshire County Cricket Club
Alexander Howden Jubilee Award, Great Britain
Achievements, 1977
Stratford Cricket Club, 1985
Norgren Martonair Ltd. 1987
Old Veeseyan Association, 1989
Hotel Metropole, 1992
Tarmac plc, 1995
Publications
London Illustrated News
Young Artist of Promise
The Birmingham School (Birmingham City Art Gallery)
New York Times
Birmingham Convention and Visitor Bureau Manual, 1992
Roy Abell was a Birmingham based Artist specialising in figurative and landscape paintings in oil and watercolour.
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