John Crossley LG RWS

Colour has developed into one of the major components within my work, an integral part of the process of defining ways of seeing the world within and around me; trying to establish a cohesive and sensual statement to heighten and enhance a sense of the actual rather than the imaginary.

Over the last few years I have been working on a series that sets out to explore issues of memory, intimacy and location. The painting evolves through a state of addition and subtraction, creating a layered surface and structure beneath. This in turn enables the orchestration of movements and forms to occupy an area that emerges or recedes to form an elusive arena, where absence and memory negotiate boundaries. Image and colour are evoked to reveal a contemplative space where time, silences and distance coexist to create a narrative, allowing an internal conversation that embraces the viewers contribution to the on going dialogue.

Education

1973-1974 Postgraduate Sculpture, St Martins School of Art.

1970 -1973 B.A. Hons Sculpture, St Martins School of Art.

1969-1970 Foundation, East Ham Technical College

Awards

• Arts Council Great Britain
• The Sainsbury Award

Commissions

Unilever PLC, London

Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge

Professional Bodies

2020   Elected Member of The Small Painting Group. (www.thesmallpaintingsgroup.co.uk)

2017   Elected Full Member and Vice President of The Royal Watercolour Society.

2015   Elected Associate Member of The Royal Watercolour Society. (www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk)

1978   Elected Member of The London Group. (www.thelondongroup.com)

Residencies

2023    Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland.

2017    Casa Zia Lina, Elba, Italy.

2014   ‘The Lookout’ Aldeburgh, Suffolk in association Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary

1985    Triangle, Pine Plains, New York

Rochdale Art Gallery, Lancashire.

Representation

Eames Fine Art, London. www.eamesfineart.co.uk

Exhibitions: Solo and Two Person Shows

2022     ‘Ebb and Flow’ Eames Fine Art, London (catalogue)

John Crossley and Esmond Bingham, CraftCo Gallery Southwold, Suffolk

2020. ‘Wish You Were Here’ Eames Fine Art, London (online catalogue)

2019     ‘Remembered Light’ Eames Fine Art, London (catalogue)

2017     ‘A New Landscape’ Eames Fine Art, London

Open Studio, Suffolk.

‘Sixty Four’ The Cello Factory, London (catalogue)

2014     Open Studio, with Rebecca Bergese, London

‘The Lookout’, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary

2013     Open Studio, with Rebecca Bergese, London

2011     ‘Into the Light’ Bicha Gallery, London (catalogue)

2010     ‘Drawing to Painting’ Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

Open Studio, with Rebecca Bergese, London

2007    ‘Tales and Random Truths’, Bluthners Piano Centre, London with Derek Marks in

Collaboration with The London School of Music.

2005     Open Studio, London

1999     ‘Inside Out’, The Start Gallery, London.

1997     Harriet Green Gallery, London with Vanessa Jackson.

1996     The Milton Gallery, London

1992     Im Schlossli Grachwil, Berne, Switzerland

1990    ‘Interwoven States’ Oriel Gallery, Mold, North Wales (catalogue)

1985    ‘Off the Wall’ Rochdale Art Gallery, Lancashire (catalogue)

1984    ‘Coloured Constructions’ Camden Art Centre, London (catalogue)

1983     The Minories, Colchester, Spacex Gallery, Exeter (catalogue)

1982     Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Art Centre, Sunderland (catalogue)

1981     Wakefield Art Centre, West Yorkshire

1980     Air Gallery, London

1976     Camden Art Centre, London

Swiss Cottage Library, London with Daniel Dahl

‘Drawings’ Shaw Theatre, London with Robert Selman

Exhibitions:  Selected Group

2022      ‘Fauna and Flora’ The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

‘Summer Show’, Mandells Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk

‘Wish You/ We Were Here/There’ Bookart Bookshop and Printed Book, London

London Original Print Fair with Eames Fine Art, Somerset House, London

‘Borders’ Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk

‘Reflections’ Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London

2021./22 ‘Winter Group Show’ Linden Hall Studios, Deal, Kent

2021/22 Small Painters Group, Piers Feetham Gallery, London

Small Painters Group, Jerram Gallery, Sherbourne, Dorset

‘Now and Then’ Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London

‘September Showcase’ Bankside Gallery, London

Woolwich Contemporary Art Fair, London with Eames Fine Art

‘Summer Show’ Bankside Gallery, London

‘Summer Show’ The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

‘Coming up for air’ Waterloo Festival 2021, The London Group at St John’s Churchyard, Waterloo,

London.

‘They Can’t Cancel Spring’ Royal Watercolour Society, (online)

‘In Plain Site’ The London Group, The Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dorset (catalogue)

2020/21 ‘Winter Group Show’ Linden Hall Studios, Deal, Kent

Small Painting Group, Piers Feetham Gallery, London

‘A Common Place’ Eames Fine Art Gallery, London (catalogue)

2020      ‘Art in time of Corona’ Royal Watercolour society, Bankside Gallery, London.

The London Group Annual 2020, (online)

‘Wish You /We Were Here/There, London Group curated by Sumi Perera, (online)

‘Lockdown’ Linden Hall Studios, Deal, Kent (online)

‘Small is Beautiful Summer’ Flowers Gallery, London. (online)

‘2020 Vision’ Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London

The Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts with Eames Fine Art Gallery. (online)

2019     ‘Winter Show’ Mandells Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk

‘Mini Picture Show’ Bankside Gallery, London

‘Wood and Water, Thicks and Stones’ Gallery East Gallery, Woodbridge, Suffolk

‘Small is Beautiful, XXXVII’, Flowers Gallery, Cork St, London

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, with Eames Fine Art

‘The Art of Travel’ Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London (catalogue)

‘The London Group Open 2019’ Cello Factory, London. (catalogue)

‘Summer Show’ Mandells Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk.

‘Stillness’ Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk

‘Wells Contemporary Open’ Wells Cathedral, Somerset. (catalogue)

‘Summer Show’ Bankside Gallery, London.

‘Urban Landscape’ Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk

‘Open’ Colchester Arts Society, The Minories Gallery, Colchester, Essex

‘Spotlight’ Bankside Gallery, London (catalogue)

‘The Original Print Fair’, Eames Fine Art at The Royal Academy of Arts, London.

‘Red Dot, 3^rd Mini Print’, Granary Gallery, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire.

Cambridge Arts Space, Cambridge, The New Sentinel Gallery, Wivenhoe, Essex (catalogue)

‘In The Studio’ Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London

‘Drawing Distictions’, The Cello Factory, London

‘Painting and Other Things’ Three person show, John Crossley, Daniel Dahl and

James Faure Walker, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk.