Still Life – a bugle, a jug and decanter on a flowered tablecloth

About George Weissbort

George Weissbort was born in Brussels in 1928. Seven years later his family moved to London. Throughout his childhood he was fascinated by drawing, and during the war, at Oxford, his friend Joseph Horovitz introduced him to Arthur Segal, an “experimental” painter who had come to naturalism late in his career. Segal’s credo was simple: Nature (optical realism) is wonderful; the nearer you approach its beauty, the more beautiful your paintings become.