Roy Abell | |
Fullname: | Roy Beverley Abell |
Birth Date: | 21 January 1931 |
Birth Place: | Small Heath, Birmingham |
Death Place: | Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham |
Batting: | Right handed |
Bowling: | Leg break |
Type1: | FC |
Onetype1: | true |
Debutdate1: | 5 July |
Debutyear1: | 1967 |
Debutfor1: | Warwickshire |
Debutagainst1: | Cambridge University |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 1 |
Runs1: | – |
Bat Avg1: | – |
100S/50S1: | – |
Top Score1: | – |
Deliveries1: | 246 |
Wickets1: | 4 |
Bowl Avg1: | 28 |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 3/64 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 1/– |
Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27394/27394.html CricketArchive |
Date: | 3 July |
Year: | 2020 |
Roy Beverley Abell (21 January 1931 – 30 June 2020) was an English Midlands-based artist. He was born in Small Heath, Birmingham and had a distinguished career as a painter and as an art teacher.[1] He studied at the Birmingham College of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London, returning to Birmingham to teach at his former college from 1957 to 1982.[2] He was made head of the painting school[3] in 1974 and served as a member of the West Midlands Arts - Fine Arts Panel.[1]
Abell's paintings were a response to the visual world around him, painting using both oils and watercolour. His subjects were vast and wide-ranging, however his principal subjects were figurative and landscape, most particularly the wild landscapes of Spain, England, Scotland, Wales and especially the rugged coast of Pembrokeshire.[1]
Abell exhibited in many solo and joint exhibitions across the country and his work is represented in public collections all over the UK: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales[4] and Arts Council of Great Britain. Abell received a number of commissions during his career, most notably one of the six Alexander Howden Jubilee Awards - Great British Achievements in 1977.[1]
Abell was also a cricketer, a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler. Abell played for Warwickshire Second XI from 1960 to 1968, and played one first-class match for Warwickshire in 1967.[5] [6] [1] He took four wickets against Cambridge University on debut at the advanced age of 36.
He was the first bowler to take 1,000 wickets in the Birmingham League.[7]