Larry Ham (1925-2007)
Larry Ham 1925-2007
| Please click on the images below for details and pricing. Scroll down for artist information. | Click here to go back |
Artist Information
Larry Ham was born in Newquay, Cornwall.
After local education he attended Chelsea School of Art where he was taught drawing by Vivian Pitchforth. The enthusiasm for abstract painting of the 1950's was shared by Ham who saw many exhibitions in the capital. He exhibited in the legendary 'Artists of Fame and Promise' series at the Leicester Galleries and later, a west-end solo exhibition with the Cooper Gallery proved commercially successful.
In 1958 Larry Ham moved to Guernsey, with his wife, where he painted powerful abstractions based on the recurring motif of figures against a landscape. He was close to France in more ways than one, and his love of de Stael, Poliakoff and other French-based modern masters was influential on his own impastoed and simplified compositions.
Guernsey Museum mounted a comprehensive memorial exhibition in 2009.
A small monograph by Peter Davies was published in 2010.