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Full name | Roy Beverley Abell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Small Heath, Birmingham | 21 January 1931||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham | 30 June 2020||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Leg break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roy Beverley Abell (21 January 1931 – 30 June 2020) was an English Midlands-based artist. He was born in Small Heath, Birmingham and had a distinguished career as a painter and as an art teacher. [1] He studied at the Birmingham College of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London, returning to Birmingham to teach at his former college from 1957 to 1982. [2] He was made head of the painting school [3] in 1974 and served as a member of the West Midlands Arts - Fine Arts Panel. [1]
Abell's paintings were a response to the visual world around him, painting using both oils and watercolour. His subjects were vast and wide-ranging, however his principal subjects were figurative and landscape, most particularly the wild landscapes of Spain, England, Scotland, Wales and especially the rugged coast of Pembrokeshire. [1]
Abell exhibited in many solo and joint exhibitions across the country and his work is represented in public collections all over the UK: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales [4] and Arts Council of Great Britain. Abell received a number of commissions during his career, most notably one of the six Alexander Howden Jubilee Awards - Great British Achievements in 1977. [1]
Abell was also a cricketer, a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler. Abell played for Warwickshire Second XI from 1960 to 1968, [5] and played one first-class match for Warwickshire in 1967. [5] [6] [1] He took four wickets against Cambridge University on debut at the advanced age of 36.
He was the first bowler to take 1,000 wickets in the Birmingham League. [7]