Winston

Branch

searches

for

colour

and

light

in

large-scale

artworks

in

London

Winston Branch received his OBE last year in 2024, marking decades of work in the arts and his contribution to art in the UK. After moving here at the tender age of twelve, Branch began his formal art education at The Slade (where he was taught by artists including Keith Vaughan, Frank Auerbach and Euan Uglow) before embarking on a lifelong career as an artist. His first solo exhibition took place in 1967 at experimental space Arts Lab, which was also host to John Lennon and Yoko Ono and David Bowie.

In person, Branch is dapper and eloquent when we meet to speak after the opening of his new exhibition ‘Out of the Calabash’ at Goodman Gallery, London. In a return to very large-scale work, which he abandoned shortly after leaving The Slade, Branch is showing a series of abstract works that continue to explore his decades-long investigation into light and perspective through colour and surface.