A member of the St Ives School, Bell creates abstracts molded by the forces of nature. His work has found a welcome reception on both sides of the Atlantic.
Trevor Bell was born in Leeds and studied at the College of Art from 1947 - 1952. After a period as a teacher at Harrogate College of Art, and on the advice of the artist Terry Frost, in 1955 Bell and his wife moved to St Ives making made his reputation as a leading member of the younger generation of St Ives artists. He exhibited with the Penwith Society of Arts from 1956 and at the Tate Gallery and New Art Centre in London in mixed shows.
A series of solo exhibitions at Waddington Galleries followed from 1958, and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. In 1959, he won the 'Paris Biennale International Painting' award and after short periods in Italy, Bell took up a Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University in 1960.
Bell became Professor of Graduate Painting at Florida State University in the 1970s. He continued to stay in the United States for over 20 years, but moving full-circle he returned to live and paint in Cornwall during the 1990s.
His work is represented in the Tate Gallery and in the collection of The Arts Council of England.