Leslie Marr

The gallery regularly handles, acquires and advises on works by Leslie Marr. For more information or the availability of work, please contact the gallery. Leslie Marr, October 2012: "Painting is for me an exploration, and one of the most important maxims for an explorer is, 'No preconception'. This means no reliance on other people's ideas, teaching, theories. To have been taught by a great teacher is indeed a privilege. One should absorb the teaching, taking from it what one feels that one needs, but then one must go ones own way, or remain forever trapped in one particular system." Leslie Marr was born at Aykley Heads in Durham City in 1922. He joined the R.A.F in 1942, serving in both the UK and in the Middle East. After leaving the R.A.F, he joined the classes of David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic, and in 1947 he exhibited with the Borough group at the Everyman Cinema Gallery. The year after, Marr was elected founder member and secretary of the expanded Borough Group and consequently frequently exhibited with the group. Marr has travelled extensively and sought artistic inspiration from each place that he has visited whether it be the Lake District in Cumbria or his trip to New Zealand in 1960. His most iconic and well-known works come from the time he spent in Scotland, particularly at Glen Etive, near Glencoe. Marr primarily focuses on landscape and still life in a predominantly expressionistic style. This exhibition reviewed the major creative outbursts in twentieth-century Britain, with paintings, sculptures, ceramics and textiles made by four generations of pioneering artists – from Sickert at the fin de... Bomberg / Marr: Spirits in the Mass examined the personal and creative bonds uniting two pioneers of modern British painting. This exhibition formed the second instalment in a series exploring... Until 25 June 2017, The Lightbox gallery and museum will present ‘Ruth Borchard Collection: Artists’ Self-Portraits’ , an exhibition displaying one hundred self-portraits by significant... Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.