Person    | Male  Born 28/10/1925  Died 27/3/2006

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Categories: Art, Sculpture

Countries: Caribbean Islands, Scotland

Poet, writer, artist and gardener. Born in the Bahamas to Scottish parents and brought up in Scotland. Studied at Glasgow School of Art. Combined his interests by installing concrete poetry in his self-created garden at Little Sparta, near Edinburgh. Died Edinburgh.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Princess Diana - Serpentine Gallery

"The beauty of trees..." is a quotation from Hutcheson.

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Mychael Barratt

Mychael Barratt

Painter and printmaker.  Born Canada c.1960.  Based in London since 1984.  Personal website.

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Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

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Person, Art, France

1 memorial
Hablot Knight Browne, 'Phiz'

Hablot Knight Browne, 'Phiz'

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Person, Art

1 memorial
Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell

Artist and interior designer, born Vanessa Stephen at 22 Hyde Park Gate, London. Sister of Virginia Woolf. She married Clive Bell in 1907 and their home in Gordon Square became the focus of what wa...

Person, Art, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Guido Reni

Guido Reni

Italian painter.

Person, Art, Italy

1 memorial