During the decades of its existence the FPS has attracted artists who rejected the narrow aims of orthodoxy, and required something more exciting – their own part in creative art. They didn’t form an artistic movement, there were no manifestos. It was simply their determination to survive on their own terms, resisting the tempting blandishments of a consumer culture that leads to uniformity and poverty of thought. When the malady has run its course and the human spirit reasserts itself, FPS will be seen to have helped nurture free expression in art through a dark period.

The foregoing was adapted from the publication ‘The Free Painter & Sculptors 1952 – 1992’ written by ROY RASMUSSEN