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…
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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.
Biography
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
- ‘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, 3rd 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.