Melissa Munro is senior curator of the Derek Williams collection at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.

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Gillian Ayres at home in Barnes, London, in 1961.

A tribute to Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)

Ayres has died at the age of 88 after a long, vibrant career as one of Britain’s leading abstract painters

18 Apr 2018

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