“These decorative curves are only painted rugs which would be better to sit on than to admire hanging on a wall,” proclaimed the dadaist Hugo Ball, mocking the abstract paintings of Wassily Kandinsky.

Gillian Ayres, a leading British abstract painter whose pursuit of beauty led her to use evocative colors, texture her works with thick layers of oils and occasionally hurl paint at her canvasses, ...

For all the world attention they get, British abstract expressionists might as well be painting on another planet. The British public might even suspect that it’s one of those things that isn’t done.

DUBLIN — Patrick Jones, an English abstract artist now in his mid-60s, spent a considerable amount of time in America. After studying art in England, most notably at the Birmingham College of Art, he ...

The renowned British abstract painter Sir Frank Bowling is unveiling his first-ever digital artwork on May 4 in London’s Piccadilly Circus. At 8:23pm BST, his work, titled Arrival, will flash across ...