Brian Rice (1936 -)

Brian Rice's career covers a period of remarkable dedication and innovation as an accomplished painter and printmaker. He was born in 1936 in Yeovil, Somerset and studied at Yeovil School of Art from 1952-56 and then Goldsmiths College, London from 1958-59 (A.C.T. London University 1959). Rice lived and worked in London from 1962-78, where he marked the formative years in his career, strengthening both the conviction of his abstract work and his reputation. During the 1960s, he produced luminous, hard edged abstract paintings and prints, which achieved national and international publicity and acclaim, and quickly found their way into worldwide collections. In 1978, Rice bought a 50-acre farm in West Dorset, where he immersed himself in farming and his only contact with the art world was teaching at Brighton Polytechnic (1972-91). However, he continued to work slowly, developing a visual language that was part of a dialogue with the p