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Forthcoming
exhibition by John B Anderson 1945 -
1997 from June 6 - July 4
JOHN B.
ANDERSON
May 1945 -
January 1997
John was
born in Glasgow but within the year his
family moved to London, where they
welcomed into their home many of the
literary and artistic figures of the
time. The family moved to a hill farm
in Devon when John was eight years old.
He
attended Foxhole School in Dartington
followed by a brief and turbulent time
at Exeter College of Art.
John’s
mental instability, a factor in his life
for many years, was finally alleviated
by applying a prescription given by an
eminent psychiatrist, to ‘put a roof
over his head, supply him with art
materials, give him a small allowance
and he will cure himself’, which indeed
he did.
He then
enrolled at Heatherley’s and also
attended St Martins, where he studied
under Maggi Hambling.
In 1976 he
moved to Lincolnshire to paint the
landscape. In the same year he was
represented in the Royal West of England
Academy. Due to family connections he
frequently visited Cornwall [St Ives
Bathers, series].
Over a
period of time, John worked in oils,
water colours, tempera and printmaking,
but towards the end of his life, he
worked largely in acrylic which he felt
gave him the clarity of colour he had
always sought.
Throughout
the exhibition you can see the
development of his work, his admiration
for and the influence of Van Gogh,
Modigliani and Picasso, and the eventual
development of his own style - symbolic
representations of his own desires,
desolate sadness and great joy.
John’s
work is represented in collections in
the United States, Canada, Australia,
Europe and the UK. In the spring 1995,
the Zella Nine Art Gallery, London SW10
began taking his work. His work has
also been sold through WH Lane & Son,
Fine Art Auctioneers, Penzance.
Solo
Exhibitions:
Boston
Arts Centre, 1979
Salem Arts
Centre, 1990
Trereife
Gallery, 2009
Mixed Exhibitions:
Royal West
of England Academy 1976
Usher
Gallery, 1976/7/8/9
Dartington
Hall Gallery 1985
Int.
Exhibition of Interior Design, 1989
Sidmouth
Arts Festival, 1995
Whiteley's
Summer Exhibition, 1996
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