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Frank Beanland: Frank Beanland (born 1936, Bridlington, Yorkshire) is a well known painter of abstracts in oil, acrylic and gouache. He studied at Hull College of Art 1952-57, and after National Service then at the Slade School of Fine Art in London 1959-61, where his teachers included Ceri Richards and Frank Auerbach. After winning the prestigious Boise Scholarship he studied at the Royal Academy Stockholm 1961-62, and after his return to England he took a studio in Porthleven, Cornwall, and became a member of the Porthleven Group. It was here that his lifelong interest in abstract painting developed. One-man exhibitions include the Drian Gallery 1963 and 1965, Grabowski Gallery 1967, Arthur Tooth & Sons 1969-74, Smiths Galleries One 1990, and the Belgrave Gallery 1999. Mixed exhibitions include Young Contemporaries, the London Group and Gimpel Fils. During the 1960s, he developed what became known as his 'spot' paintings as his focus moved from texture to light and colour. He is married to the artist Emily Gwynne-Jones. Frank Beanland settled in East Anglia in 1966 and lives at Cressingfield in Suffolk.