This is Graham Sutherland

Graham Vivian Sutherland OM (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was an English player who is notable for his proceed in glass, fabrics, prints and portraits. His decree was much inspired by landscape and religion, and he meant the tapestry for the re-built Coventry Cathedral.

Printmaking, mostly of tender landscapes, dominated Sutherland’s affect during the 1920s. He developed his art by lively in watercolours before switching to using oil paints in the 1940s. It is these oil paintings, often of surreal, organic landscapes of the Pembrokeshire coast, that secured his reputation as a leading British objector artist. Sutherland taught at a number of art colleges, notably at Chelsea School of Art and at Goldsmiths College, where he had been a student. He served as an certified war artiste in the Second World War drawing industrial scenes on the British house front.

Such was Sutherland’s standing in post-war Britain that he was commissioned to design the loud central tapestry in the additional Coventry Cathedral, Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph. A number of portrait commissions in the 1950s proved severely controversial. Winston Churchill hated Sutherland’s depiction of him. After initially refusing to be presented subsequently it at all, he accepted it disparagingly as “a remarkable example of modern art“. Churchill’s wife, Lady Spencer-Churchill, had the painting destroyed within a year of receiving it.

In 1955, Sutherland and his wife purchased a property near Nice. Living abroad led to something of a fade away in his status in Britain. However, a visit to Pembrokeshire in 1967, his first vacation there in nearly twenty years, led to a creative renewal that went some exaggeration toward restoring his reputation as a leading British artist.