The artist and critic Roger Fry introduced the British public to post - impressionism in 1910, coining the term for an exhibition that he organised of paintings by Cezanne, Gaugin, and Van Gogh.

Charles Ginner was typical of many British artists who took certain elements of post-impressionist painting, in his case Van Gogh's vivid colouring and thick brushwork, to form a distinctive style of their own. Stanley Spencer also developed a very individual style that had its origins in the stylised figures, simplified colouring and two-dimensional patterning of Gaugin's art.