Bruer Tidman (British b.1939)

Two Women
pen and ink on lined notepaper
45 x 37cm

Footnote: Brought up as a small boy in Rackheath alongside fellow artist Colin Self, Tidman is a semi-abstract figurative painter. He studied at Great Yarmouth College of Art (1957-61) and then the Royal College of Art (1961-4). He began working as a lecturer at Lowestoft School of Art before painting full-time from 1984. Tidman has gained a string of prizes including First Prize in the East Anglian Artists open in 1986 and First Prize in Drawing for All, 2000. His subject is figurative, ‘an enduring fascination with the body and human relationships,’ Tidman paints clowns, night shelter residents, beautiful women, brutal soldiers. He has exhibited extensively with the Royal Academy as well as in Switzerland an d Finland, and as Artist in Residence for the famous Hippodrome Circus in Great Yarmouth. He has works held at the Imperial College of Science, London, The University of Essex, Norwich Castle Museum, and the Rijkers Art Collection.