Colin Moss (1914–2005)
Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service: Ipswich Borough Council Collection
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and teacher, born in Ipswich, Suffolk, where he settled, teaching at the School of Art, 1947–79. During the war he had been engaged in camouflage for the Ministry of Home Security. Moss studied at Plymouth College of Art, 1930–4, then at Royal College of Art, 1934–8, under Barnett Freedman and Gilbert Spencer. In 1961 he studied under Kokoschka in Salzburg, and like this teacher he was an Expressionist, employing strong, rich colours and tones and forceful brushwork. In 1958 Moss was a founder-member of New Ipswich Art Group, in 1976 a founder-member of Six in Suffolk Group and from 1980–2 chairman of Ipswich Art Club. He took part in many mixed shows from Britain in Watercolour at RWS Gallery in 1953.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
