Michael J Strang (1942-2021) | Cornish Artist

A fabulous Artist of stunning Cornish landscapes and vibrant flowers

Michael James Strang was a British Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1942. He trained at Wimbledon College of Art and Camberwell School of Art, 1968-1973.

Strang worked from his home studio at Gulval near Penzance, and was a prolific landscape and floral painter and exhibitor. His paintings, St Ives Storm (c1992-97) and Towards Penzance, Twilight Mount's Bay 18 October, 1997, are both in the Penlee House Collection, Penzance. His paintings are often large with paint thickly laid in a heavy impasto.

He exhibited widely and many of his paintings were acquired by private and public collections. Michael Strang's paintings are in many public collections including the Royal Cornwall Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, National Museum of Wales, Penlee House Museum and the Ashmolean in Oxford. His oil painting of St Martin-in-the-Fields now hangs on permanent display in the vicarage of the James Gibb-designed church which dominates the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square.

He was a member of the St. Ives Society of Artists and exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Sources: www.cornwallartists.org and www.artbiogs.co.uk