John Hoskin (1921 – 1990) was a British sculptor, born in Cheltenham. He began drawing when he returned from Germany after the Second World War. Terry Frost, one of the painters from the St. Ives school, encouraged him to become a sculptor. John, working as an architects draughtsman but wanting to become an artist, knew of the group working in St. Ives and decided to hitch-hike there.

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  • John Hoskin (1921 – 1990) was a British sculptor, born in Cheltenham. He began drawing when he returned from Germany after the Second World War. Terry Frost, one of the painters from the St. Ives school, encouraged him to become a sculptor. John, working as an architects draughtsman but wanting to become an artist, knew of the group working in St. Ives and decided to hitch-hike there. By a remarkable, but surely destined co-incidence, he was picked up and given a lift by Terry By the time they got there John knew being a sculptor was to be his destiny. "It was" he said "as if up until that journey my life had been playing out of tune" He began sculpting in the early 1950s, working in metal. His works combine shiny curved surfaces with contrasting black welded comb of rods that held them, a conflict of geometric and organic forms. He also made abstract figures. He soon became one of the most noted younger British sculptors, with successful one-man shows In the 1960s at the Grosvenor and Matthiesen Galleries. His work can be found in the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Council collection and various galleries around the world — in America, Yugoslavia, New Zealand and Australia. He refused to allow one style to dominate his sculpture, even though often this alienated him from those who had supported his early work. He has taught at the Bath Academy in Corsham, head of painting at Winchester, visiting lecturer at Newcastle, and Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leicester.
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  • John Hoskin (1921 – 1990) was a British sculptor, born in Cheltenham. He began drawing when he returned from Germany after the Second World War. Terry Frost, one of the painters from the St. Ives school, encouraged him to become a sculptor. John, working as an architects draughtsman but wanting to become an artist, knew of the group working in St. Ives and decided to hitch-hike there.
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  • John Hoskin
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