5 October – 17 November

ADRIAN RYAN (1920 -1998)

The Abstract Hinterland


Figurative, sometimes naïve, rich with integrity, rich in paint – this is the blend which characterizes the work of this essentially local painter, whose grandfather once owned Hintlesham Hall where he spent much of his childhood.

His work has been widely shown and is in many distinguished public and private collections, but it had not been exhibited in Ipswich prior to this show.

Still life and landscape were chief among the subjects represented – things which everyone can understand – but all were tinged with some hint of contrasting abstraction that prevailed from the 1950s onwards and which Adrian Ryan, unlike his contemporaries, rejected overall.