Frederick Henry Ousey (1915–1985) was a British post-modernist painter whose work has been described as "very important in the 20th century British art scene", and exhibited across Europe.[1]
Ousey was born in Longsight, Manchester, on 21 November 1915. He trained as an architect.[2]
He moved to Cornwall where he became associated with Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.[3] A collection of 25 paintings is owned and exhibited by the Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, who rate his work "amongst the finest in abstract paintings emanating from the St Ives School"[4] Ousey was working towards a major show in Paris at the time of his death in 1985. A retrospective, "One Needs More Than Paint, A Centenary Exhibition of Harry Ousey", was held at Salford Art Gallery in June 2015.