Fred Ingrams

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Fred Ingrams' early exhibitions include The Groucho Club, Albemarle Gallery and Birch & Conran.
Fred left Camberwell College of Art's painting programme in the 1980s after not being taken seriously as an artist working in acrylic paint.
The artist's work has been collected by Francis Bacon, a fellow mainstay of Soho's art scene in the 1980s.

Fred Ingrams is fascinated by the Fenlands, the flat and forgotten coastal plains in the East of England depicted in his landscape paintings. Often opting to work en plein air rather than in the studio, the artist juxtaposes fine details with stark and empty horizon lines to capture the aesthetically uncompromising terrain. At a young age he broke away from the traditional imperative to work in oil, and continues to use acrylic as a means to represent the interplay between the overarching strict order and bursts of chaos contained within his chosen terrain.

Education and Early Exhibitions

Paradoxically, Fred has both attended two of London’s top art colleges and been largely self-taught. After attending Camberwell in the early 1980s, the artist was expelled from his MFA at St. Martins Schools of Art. This apparent blow turned out to be a positive step. He took residency in a room above Soho’s iconic Coach & Horses pub, where he spent the next 10 years honing his own style of painting. Throughout the 80s and 90s he had solo exhibitions at iconic London spaces including The Groucho Club, Albemarle Gallery and Bruton Street Gallery. Here, he sold work to a range of local collectors and tastemakers including Francis Bacon.

Fred Ingrams’ Recent Career

Although the artist now lives between the Fens and the Flow Country (another remarkably flat landscape which is becoming a new preoccupation of his), his work continues to preoccupy the London art world. Since 2015 he has shown with Art Bermondsey and One Paved Court. His work Ditch on Mildenhall Fen was also shown at the House of Vans as part of the 2018 Rise Art Prize exhibition.

You can read more about Fred’s inspiration and process in our article profiling Fred Ingrams.

Selected Works

Coast Path, Nov 2023 by Fred Ingrams

Coast Path, Nov 2023

Paintings - 91x91 cm
Peath and Heather, August 2022 by Fred Ingrams

Peath and Heather, August 2022

Paintings - 91x91 cm
Mundesley Coast Path by Fred Ingrams

Mundesley Coast Path

Paintings - 51x51 cm
Strath, Oct 2022 by Fred Ingrams

Strath, Oct 2022

Paintings - 91x91 cm
Nightfall, Strathmore, Feb by Fred Ingrams

Nightfall, Strathmore, Feb

Paintings - 61x61 cm
Loch More, Feb by Fred Ingrams

Loch More, Feb

Paintings - 61x61 cm
Bog Cotton by Fred Ingrams

Bog Cotton

Paintings - 91x91 cm
Caithness Memory by Fred Ingrams

Caithness Memory

Paintings - 31x31 cm
River Helmsdale, Jan 2020 by Fred Ingrams

River Helmsdale, Jan 2020

Paintings - 61x61 cm

Looking back to Wissington

Paintings - 91x91 cm

Flow Country, Feb

Paintings - 31x31 cm

Dunbeath

Paintings - 91x91 cm

Bog Cotton, Camster

Paintings - 41x41 cm

First Light

Paintings - 61x61 cm

Braemore Dawn

Paintings - 91x91 cm

River Helmsdale, Kinbace

Paintings - 61x61 cm

Pink Ditch, Nov 2022

Paintings - 91x91 cm

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