By: SALISBURY, Alan (1946-)

Acq. Number: 831

Dimensions: 51 x 77 cm, in frame 87 x 113 cm

Artwork_Medium: oil on board

Purchased: 2010

Buyer: EVANS, Dr Chris

Location: University of South Wales (Oriel y Bont)

Town: Treforest

Notes: Alan Salisbury was born in Preston, Lancashire and studied painting at Manchester and Liverpool Colleges of Art and the Royal College of Art, London.He has lived in Wales since 1974, working at the University of Glamorgan where he was Principal Lecturer in Painting and Field Leader in Arts and Media. Alan is a painter who works within the conventions of narrative representation. The earlier works are imagined and invented landscapes the later works are influenced by concepts gleaned from post modern approaches to visual arts production and span a number of familiar subject genre - the human figure, portraiture and still life.