John Randall Bratby (1928-1992)

Bratby is considered the founder of kitchen sink realism a movement in which artists use everyday objects, like rubbish bins and beer bottles as subjects of their works, which are often thickly-laden portraits or paintings.

He painted landscapes, still life, portraits and figure compositions. His studied at the Kingston College of Art (1949-50) and completed his studies in 1954 at the Royal college of Art.