Duncan Grant

By 1913 he had been appointed co-director of the Omega Workshops and three years later, whilst living in London's Fitzroy Square, he became a regular visitor at Vanessa and Adrian Bell's Thursday evening meetings, which were to form the nucleus of what later became the Bloomsbury Group. The artists of the group (Bell, Fry and Grant) were preoccupied with the work of the Post Impressionists as is apparent in their use of bold colour and interest in creating solid, tangible forms. Their paintings celebrated the sensuous beauty of everyday domestic surroundings. Grant enjoyed his position as one of Britain's most important artists until the late 1930's, when the influence of the Bloomsbury group was eclipsed by the Second World War. However, in 1970, Grant was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal College of Art.