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George Large - Trust Me I'm An Artist, 2000



George Large was born at Islington, London in 1936 and went on to study art at Hornsey College of Art from 1958-63. Large is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and in 1986 he was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. Three years later he won the Winsor & Newton Award and his work is represented in several important public collections.
Human figures are important components in Large’s compositions, often men at work, and the work of Edward Burra and Stanley Spencer has been influential upon Large’s art. He has held several solo exhibitions and was commissioned to do a mural for Kings Cross Thameslink Station. In recent years he has lived and painted in Rutland and Malta.
George was still painting until his death, aged 89, in 2025.

George Large hated school and left when he was fifteen, his only qualification being a precocious distinction in A-Level Art. A short spell in the display department at Simpsons of Piccadilly was followed by a place at Hornsey College of Arts and Crafts.
Large was rarely without his sketchbook. We follow him thought the boatyards at Felixstowe and cannot but share his childlike enthusiasm and sense of wonder at what he sees – a myriad of shapes and colours and textures, all there for him to draw. Visiting Cookham he recalls meeting his childhood hero, Stanley Spencer, some forty years previously and painting with him in the churchyard.
Our gentle and revealing portrait of Large allows us the rare opportunity of glancing over the artist's shoulder and watching as he works from sketchbooks to finished watercolour.
George Large was born at Islington, London in 1936 and went on to study art at Hornsey College of Art from 1958-63 where one of his fellow students was Allen Jones. The work of Edward Burra and Stanley Spencer has been influential upon Large’s art. Human figures are important components in Large’s compositions, often men at work, used as the artist says, because I distort the shapes and love great big muscles. It’s the solidness, it works better for distortion. As the art critic Anthony J.Lester has written, These monumental, sculpture-like, wilfully convoluted figures now consume his paintings. They have become the very hallmark of all his work.
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