
Bernard Reynolds (1915–1997)
Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service: Ipswich Borough Council Collection
Sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker and teacher, born in Norwich where he studied at the School of Art and Westminster School of Art, 1932–7. From 1938–47 worked as an engineer. He went on to teach sculpture, retiring from Suffolk College. Reynolds’ art was wide-ranging, his sculpture including portraits of children, an Amanita figure series with elegant, purposeful distortions, Mycomorphs which were based on fungi and some pure abstractions. The nude was a constant theme of his drawings over 50 years. Reynolds showed widely in East Anglia. A survey of his work was shown at Chappel Galleries, Essex, in 1991. His commissions included a pair of 20-foot pylons for Suffolk College and a fountain sculpture for Ipswich Civic Centre which won the RBS’s Sir Otto Beit Award in 1972.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)