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Historical Artist - Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979)
Ivon Hitchens, British painter, is remembered for creating a unique style of landscape painting
in which fields of color represent the English countryside but do not accurately depict it.
Hitchens moved to Sussex in 1940 and continued to paint in this manner without it becoming tired
or stereotypical. He also painted flowers, figures, and several large murals. He became part of
the 'London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s. His house was bombed in
1940 during World War II, at which point he moved to a caravan on a patch of woodland near
Petworth in West Sussex. He worked there for the next forty years, gradually augmenting his
caravan with a series of buildings. He is particularly well-known for panoramic landscape
paintings created from blocks of colour. His work was exhibited in the British Pavilion at the
Venice Biennale in 1956.
Contemporary United Kingdom Artists
Art Galleries in the United Kingdom
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