Prolific painter, Roy Turner Durrant was born in Suffolk, England in 1925. His career was long and distinguished, culminating with work in major public galleries in the UK and internationally.
He studied at Camberwell School of Art (1948-52) and there was influenced by Keith Vaughan, Michael Rothenstein, Michael Salaman, John Buckland Wright, Edward Ardizzone and John Minton. A member of the New English Art Club, from the late 1940s he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and in numerous commercial galleries in London. From the 1950s, his early figurative style began to change, becoming more abstract.
He said of his own work in 1951 that his abstract imagery were 'by-products of an inquisition primarily concerned not with what the eye sees but with what the intellect and emotion experience'.
