Biography
Bernard Farmer (b. London 1919 – d. 2002) studied at Chelsea Polytechnic School of Art and showed with The London Group, New Vision Centre, St Martin’s Gallery and Artists’ International Association (AIA). Farmer was co-organiser with Malcolm Hughes of Directions-Connections at AIA Gallery (1961) and he had work reproduced in Frank Avray Wilson’s Art as Understanding (1963). He had solo exhibitions at Heal’s Art Gallery(1964) and Angela Flowers Gallery (1982), the latter from which the Contemporary Art Society acquired Foligno Red (1981), an abstract painting which they donated to University of Hull Art Collection in 1986. Farmer said that “the more simple I can make an image the better I like it … The less can always expand in the mind, whereas more either constricts or becomes too much.” John Davies Fine Paintings helped reawaken interest in Farmer’s neglected work by showing examples in a mixed exhibition at The Gallery in Cork Street in 2005.
