Josef Albers & Robyn Denny works in A Collector’s Eye, The Scottish Gallery II, October 2024

<p>Robyn Denny, born in Abinger, Surrey, as among a group of young artists who transformed the direction of British art in the late 1950s, propelling it into the international spotlight. The group rejected the dominance of St Ives School of landscape-based painting, drawing inspiration instead from Abstract Expressionism, American cinema, popular culture, and urban modernity, creating a new visual language to comment on the world in which they lived.</p>

<p>osef Albers, a German-born American artist, was a leading figure in 20th-century art education. He enrolled at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1920 as a student before transitioning to a teaching role in 1922, focusing on handicrafts. Albers emigrated to the United States in 1933, where he had a profound influence on post-war Western visual art. His 1963 book Interaction of Colour remains a foundational text on colour theory. As an abstract painter he is most renowned for his<em> Homage to the Square</em> series, where he meticulously explored colour interactions through nested squares. In 1971, he made history as the first living artist to be honoured with a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York</p>