Biography
Derek Guthrie (b. Liverpool, UK 1936) studied at the West of England Art College, Bristol (1953–6), and at L’Académie de Feu, Paris. He went to live in St Ives, Cornwall as a painter in the 1960s before moving to Chicago, USA and co-founding, in 1973, the New Art Examiner, an influential American art magazine which continued production until 2002. He moved back to Cornwall in 1996. Simplified pictures of ships and the sea were a feature of his work, which was shown in a series of solo exhibitions at Portal Gallery. Guthrie lived in Brittany, Spain and Cornwall, where he settled at Newlyn, near Penzance. He said that: “A painter has a relationship with the place where he has chosen to live, and this should be a vital part of his painting.”
