Bernard Dunstan

Bernard Dunstan RA PRWA NEAC HPS
1920 – 2017

Bernard Dunstan studied at Byam Shaw School of Art in 1939 and subsequently at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1939 to 1941. He went on to teach at the West of England School of Art in Bristol from 1946 to 1949, Camberwell School of Art from 1950 to 1964, Byam Shaw School of Art from 1953 to 1974, Ravensbourne Art College from 1959 to 1964 and City and Guilds of London Art School from 1964 to 1969.

Dunstan exhibited regularly with Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London from 1952 to 1970, with Agnew’s, London, since 1972 and with Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada, USA since 1981. He also exhibits annually in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the New English Art Club, and his work is held in many private collections.

Bernard Dunstan was elected Royal Academician in 1968, and was President of the Royal West of England Academy from 1979 to 1984. He has written several books on painting, including ‘Learning to Paint’ (1970) and ‘Painting Methods of the Impressionists’ (1976).

Bernard Dunstan was married to the painter Diana Armfield RA and lived and worked in Kew, Surrey.

Recent One-Man Exhibitions – Bernard Dunstan

1999 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada, USA

1996 Agnew’s, London 1993 Agnew’s, London 1990 Agnew’s, London

Collections – Bernard Dunstan

Aberdeen Art Gallery ,Arts Council, Bristol Art Gallery, Museum of London ,National Gallery of New Zealand, National Portrait Gallery, Plymouth Art Gallery, Rochdale Art Gallery, Royal Collection, Windsor.

Bernard Dunstan

Works by the Artist