My next project will be my biggest to date: I am researching the Anglo-French Art Centre, 1945-51, set against the Labour Landslide, the birth of the Welfare State, austerity, the birth of the arts council and the Festival of Britain 1951 which, arguably, stood between art and the people.
My parents met at the Anglo-French. There they experienced the Parisian New French Realists, influenced by Existentialism. Tom and Muriel Mallin were friends with Conrad Romyn, Birget Skiold and other European travellers.
It is a brief, fascinating period of British history - cultural and political - which I will be exploring over the next year or two. If you have any reflections on this period or have contacts via the Anglo-French Art Centre, please get in touch.
Picture above: Still Life by Tom Mallin (in a private collection).
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