Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) was born in Surrey, England; he was initially known as both a successful representational painter of still life and landscapes, who later became a pioneering Abstract artist, producing collages, constructions and paintings that were some of the most revolutionary paintings in Britain at the time. Pasmore attended evening classes at Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1927, while working as a local government officer, experimenting with art styles reflecting developments in art in France since the 1880s.

After experiments in lyrical abstraction in the early 1930s, Pasmore began to experiment with abstraction more thoroughly from 1947 onwards with the support of Kenneth Clark. His earliest new abstract experiments used linear forms and collage but in 1952 and in parallel with the work of Kenneth and Mary Martin, became rigorously constructivist, with some works as three-dimensional wall-reliefs in wood and perspex. Teaching at the Central School since 1949, he became Head of Painting at King’s College, Durham University in 1954, staying till 1961, when he was able to devote himself to painting full-time.