Geoffrey Stocks was born in Yorkshire, England 1930. He has participated in more than 60 solo and group exhibitions in England, America and Australia, and his work is represented in numerous State, Municipal, University and significant private collections. Before leaving England in 1956, Geoffrey worked with the St. Ives group of painters in Cornwall, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Trevor Bell and Peter Lanyon in what art critic Frances Griffith-Adams referred to as “probably the most spectacular period of the group’s existence”. It often isn’t easy or very helpful to label an artist or their work as one style or another. Geoffrey himself explains this best as a “dangerous practice. If an artist's style is successful they may be required by the market to continue to keep within the boundaries of the label, impeding the search for a more profound creative idiom. If I were for some reason persuaded to apply a definition to my work, the label I feel most appropriate would be a balance between Surrealism and Automatism.” With echoes of Ernst, Sutherland, Cezanne and Kandinsky his detailed abstract forms and landscapes boldly defy the 'art scene', clearly displaying a level of technical skill and imagination rarely seen in art today.