Michael Cullimore was a British artist. He was born in 1936 in Wiltshire and lived in North Wales since 1962, and later Devon. Since 1972, he had become the Curator of University College North Wales Oriel, Bangor, for ten years. He died in 2021. Life Cullimore studied at Goldsmiths' School of Art. He lived in Devon until his death. Works Since 1968 Cullimore has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions around UK. His work picks up the tradition of English art where Blake, Palmer, Nash, Spenser and David Jones left off. A list of the series of works gives a clue to the range of interests and influences: Jonah and the Revelation of St. John, Leda, Radiometer, Time, Orpheus and Eurydice, Prospero, Enclosed Gardens. In Michael's own search for meaning in life, his work changes the way people look at existence and the world. Whether it is through a distillation of poetic, mythological or biblical texts, or through his own vision of nature, his work consistently focuses on moments of transformation; shape-shifting experiments dwelling on the eternal cycles of growth and decay, death and rebirth. Michael Cullimore's paintings are in a number of public collections including National Museum Wales, Arts Council of Wales, Salisbury Museum, The Creasy Collection, Salisbury Library, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum and Bournemouth, Devizes Museum, The Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland; Contemporary Arts Society of Wales; University College of North Wales; The North Wales Arts Association; Hammersmith and Fulham Picture Loans Library; Theatr Clwyd, Mold; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and The Swindon Collection. Exhibitions Solo Shows 2008/2010, Michael Cullimore - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset Group Shows 2009, Mixed Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset 2008, A Mixed Exhibition to Coincide with Dorset Arts Week - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset 2007, Mixed Summer Exhibition - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset 1982, Art and the Sea - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Comments ‘Cullimore has always had an odd and individual way of looking at things; he is a homegrown Symbolist, excited by the way that signs and portents and unexpected allusions seem to be half hidden in every shape of hill and valley, and finds magic and mystery in the most commonplace objects.....’ John Russell Taylor writing in