Colin Sealy

Colin Sealy 1891-1964. 

Born Cirencester, Gloucestershire.  Studied at Royal Academy Schools 1918-1921. Appointed teacher of life drawing at Camberwell School of Art 1924.  Married the artist Doris Vaughan and shared a studio with her at St Ives.  Member of Seven and Five Society with Nicholson, Moore and Hepworth.  Moved to Chelsea in 1940’s.  The Seven and Five Society was a group of seven painters and five sculptors created in 1919 and based in London.  The group was originally intended to encompass traditional, conservative artistic sensibilities. The first exhibition catalogue said, "[we] feel that there has of late been too much pioneering along too many lines in altogether too much of a hurry." Abstract artist Ben Nicholson joined in 1924, followed by others such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and changed the society towards modernism and expelled the non-modernist artists. In 1935, the group was renamed the Seven and Five Abstract Group. At the Zwemmer Gallery in London they staged the first exhibition of entirely abstract works in Britain