John Copnall (*1928), Painter and teacher, is the son of the sculptor Bainbridge Copnall. He studied under Henry Rushbury at the Royal Academy Schools during the early 1950's, winning the Turner Gold Medal in 1954 for landscape painting.

Living in Spain from 1955 to 1958, by the time he returned to England he was committed to abstraction exhibiting in a group show at Wildensteins in 1958.

He continued to teach and exhibit winning Arts Council Awards 1972-3, British Council Award 1979,and in 1989 was elected a member of the London Group.

Colour is the life force of John Copnall's work: “Painting is colour and colour is painting," this is the belief that Copnall continues to embrace with as much passion and enthusiasm as he ever has during his main stay of fifty years as a serious British artist.

The Arts Council, Aberdeen and Bristol public galleries and other notable collections hold examples.