Frank Avray Wilson is Britain's only real Action painter. Avray Wilson came to Abstraction following years of scientific research into the source of human aesthetics. Once he discovered that colour is not matter but energy, that an image could be as alive as a living cell under a microscope, Avray Wilson reached full Abstraction during the early 1950s. His so-called 'vitalist imageries' are explosions of colour and shapes bursting into strength and liveliness. During the 1950s and early 1960s Avray Wilson enjoyed a celebrated status with no less than twelve one-man shows held at prestigious galleries in London (Redfern Gallery), Paris (Fricker) and Brussels (Helios). Since, his art has been firmly inscribed in Art History as ‘Tachist’, the European form of Action Painting.
A true nomad at heart and naturally multicultural, Avray Wilson was universal in his thinking and his art-making, with a strong belief in the integrating powers of art.

Avray Wilson's works are in the collections of the Carnegie Foundation, Stanford, The Cleveland Museum of Modern Art, The Toledo Art Gallery, Ohio, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and in many private collections on both sides of the Atlantic.