Victor Pasmore (1908 – 1998), was born 3 December 1908 at Chelsham, Surrey. He worked at County Hall, London, 1927–37, but attended evening classes at the Central School under A.S. Hartrick. Pasmore exhibited with the London Group from 1930 and became a member 1934. He also became a member of the London Artists' Association 1932, holding his first one-man exhibition with them 1933.

Pasmore exhibited representational pictures with the ‘ Objective Abstractions’ group, Zwemmer Gallery 1934. He opened a teaching studio with Claude Rogers in Fitzroy Street 1937 and later the same year this moved to become the Euston Road School with William Coldstream and Graham Bell. Beginning in 1947 he developed a purely abstract style under the influence of Ben Nicholson and other artists associated with Circle, becoming a pioneering figure of the revival of interest in Constructivism in Britain following the War. Pasmore's abstract work, often in collage and construction of reliefs, pioneered the use of new materials and was sometimes on a large architectural scale. Herbert Read described Pasmore's new style as 'The most revolutionary event in post-war British art'.

Pasmore represented Britain at the 1960 Venice Biennale and was a trustee of the Tate Gallery, donating a number of works to the collection. He gave a lecture on J.M.W.Turner as 'first of the moderns' to the Turner Society, of which he was elected a vice-president in 1975. His work was exhibited widely all over the world including representing Britain in the Venice Biennale in 1960 and the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1965, the International Art Exhibition in Tokyo, Documenta II in Kassel, Germany and the traveling exhibition “British Art Today” in the U S A.