Biography
Prolific painter and poet, Durrant was born on 4th October 1925 and raised in Lavenham, Suffolk. He began drawing aged 5 and exhibited his first painting in Bury St. Edmunds at the age of 12. From 1948 to 1952 he studied at the Camberwell School of Art, then in it’s post war hey-day.

Durrant had his first one-man show at the Guildhall, Lavenham in the late 1940's, and continued to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy, Beaux Arts, Loggia Gallery and Belgrave Gallery, London annually throughout his life, including over 38 one-man shows. He was a fellow of the 'Free Painters & Sculptors Society', and a member of the ‘New English Art Club’.

He lived in Chelsea during the 1950's, where he met and married, before moving to Cambridge. He continued to develop his early figurative style, abstracting and simplifying, drawing on a strong natural sense of design and draughtsmanship to push the boundaries of his paintings.

Durrant's work is held in many private and public collections, including The Imperial War Museum, Bradford City Art Gallery and Bailliol College, Oxford. He exhibited widely during his lifetime in many solo and group shows, including the annual Royal Academy exhibition - below is a selection of one-man shows.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1948 Guildhall, Lavenham
1949 Cromwell Gallery, London
1950 Beaux Art Gallery, London
1951 Kensington Art Gallery, London
1951 Playhouse Theatre, Kidderminster
1952 The Coffee House, Trafalgar Square, London
1953 Parsons Gallery, Grosvenor Street, London
1953 A.I.A. Gallery, London
1953 Foyer Gallery, Everyman Cinema, Hampstead
1954 Roland, Browse & Delbanco
1954 County Cinema, Sudbury
1957 New Vision Centre Gallery
1957 A.I.A. Gallery, London
1958 Foyer Gallery, Everyman Cinema, Hampstead
1959 Grabowski Gallery, London
1960 New Gallery, Ipswich
1960 Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham (with Roland Suddaby & Aubrey Blake)
1960 New Vision Centre Gallery, London
1961 Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
1969 A.I.A. Gallery, London
1969 University of Cambridge, Cambridge
1972 St John's Wood Public Library
1972 Old Fire Engine House, Ely
1973 The Manor Gallery, Royston
1973 Loggia Gallery, London
1974 Old Fire Engine House, Ely
1974 Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk (with Mary Fedden)
1974 Cambridge Art & Design Gallery
1975 Cambridge Arts & Leisure Association
1975 Loggia Gallery, London
1976 Deben Gallery, Woodbridge
1976 Caius College, Cambridge
1977 University of Cambridge, Cambridge
1980 Old Fire Engine House, Ely
1981 Loggia Gallery, London
1984 Loggia Gallery, London
1988 Gallery of British Art, Lausanne
1991 The Belgrave Gallery, London
2005 Modern British Artists, London

Selected Collections
The Tate Gallery Collection; Imperial War Museum; R.A.F. Museum at Hendon; Bradford City Art Gallery; Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield; Usher Gallery in Lincoln; Southampton Art Gallery; Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery; Gloucester Museum & Art Gallery; Castle Museum in Norwich; Luton Museum & Art Gallery; Hove Museum of Art; Worthing Art Gallery; Beechcroft Art Gallery; Pembroke College in Oxford; Trinity College in Cambridge; Balliol College in Oxford; Leeds University; Holywell Manor in Oxford; Grenville College in Stoke; Kettles Yard in Cambridge; Bertrand Russell Foundation; Linton Village College; Bury St Edmunds Council; Art Gallery of Western Australia; University of Massachusetts, USA; Gallery of Modern Art in Rio de Janerio; Air Force Museum in Louisiana, USA