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JOHN ADDYMAN
Suffolk and Wales

Private View Saturday 5th March 2005 noon - 5.00pm
Wine served - All Works for Sale
Exibition Finishes Sunday 27th March 2005

Where enquiries of prices are made on the gallery, the work is subject to availability and the price to change.

"Ploughed Field, Foxearth c1968" 56 x 76cm

 

John Addyman - Wales & Suffolk... Suffolk & Wales

Taking the idea of engagement with different forms of picture­making John Addyman has always set his landscape against the notion of the re-presentation of ideas. The use of what is thought of as a traditional medium in this context, straight watercolour, has provided some exciting and thoughtful imagery. The Suffolk end of this dialogue has led to a formal response to fields and shadows, colour and forms, which, combined with the immediacy and gesture of the medium can be read back into the landscape with a new sense of intimacy and a new awareness.

The exercise of a moment of perception occurs in many of these works and in the process an intiuitive reaction to the'situation has been recorded.

Wales has played an important role in the development of watercolour painting and here the response has taken on some different meaning and it is the sheer impact of this powerful landscape set against the softness and sensuousness of Suffolk which has become a preoccupation. We are talking about a realism which is not a photographic or scenic representation but which delivers its message in a different way.

Responses through drawing which analyse structure in rocks and the spatial implications - and at the same time deal with something of the drama of the landscape remain in the mind, and give us further opportunity for re-evaluation which suggests new visual journeys.

Throughout a long lifetime practice in painting landscape Addyman has challenged the conventions - with a conventional medium - one of the roles of watercolour painting since the 18th century, unique to Britain.



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JOHN ADDYMAN
     
1929
Born Wallasey, Merseyside
1945-49
Wallasey School of Art
1949-52
Royal College of Art
     
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
     
1955
New Art Centre, London
1958
Minories Colchester Essex, First of three One­ man Shows
1967
Wivenhoe Arts Centre, Essex
1973
Oriel Bangor, Welsh Arts Council
1975
Aldeburgh Festival
1980
Fitzroy Gallery, London
1986
Christchurch Museum Ipswich 'Constable Country in the '80s' sponsored by Anglia T.V. 1989/97/2001/05 Chappel Galleries, Essex
1991
Gainsborough's House, Suffolk 'Work in Wales'
1992
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 'The Elements'
1998
Institute of Physics, London
2000
t'Elzenveld, Antwerp
2003
'Layers of Perception', Welsh Arts Council Touring Show, Queens Hall Gallery Narberth
2004
Llantarnum Grange Cwmbran, 'Layers of Perception'
2005
Chappel Galleries, Essex
   
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
   
1954
South Wales Group
1963
Contemporary Arts Society for Wales
1965
London group
1968
Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff
1969
New Grafton Gallery, London
1971
University of Essex, Art Dept.
1974
Gainsborough's House, selection of work
1976
Eisteddfod, Cardigan 'Origins', Prizewinner
1980
Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1984
Playhouse Gallery, Harlow
1989
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
1991
A Survey of Influential East Anglian Artists, Chappel Galleries, Essex
1993
'Gwndwn', Proteus Sculpture Network
1995
Konschthuis 'Beim Engel', Luxembourg
1997
'Landscape and Recollection', R.HA Gallery, Dublin
1998
'4 Artists from Britain', British Council.
t'Elzenveld, Antwerp
1998
Walberswick, Post War to Present, Chappel
Galleries, Essex
1999
Welsh Watercolour Society
2001
Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2002
National Trust at Dinefwr, Llandeilo. Works produced on site
2002
Van Milo Gallery, Antwerp
   
AWARDS
   
1998
Fellow of Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo
1999
Invited as member of Welsh Watercolour Society
2000
Regional prizewinner, The Hunting Art Prizes, London
   
COLLECTIONS INCLUDE
   
National Museum of Wales; Coleg Normel Bangor; Welsh Arts Council; City of Newport; British Embassy Luxembourg; City of Coventry; Christchurch Museum, Ipswich; Anglia Television; Chelmsford & Essex Museums; t'Elzenveld, Antwerp; Nottinghamshire County Council; Essex County Council; Reming Fund Management; Balliol College, Oxford; Steel Company of Wales; Gainsborough's House, Sudbury; Government Art Collection; Suffolk County Council; Luxembourg City Museum; University of Wales, Aberystwyth

 

 
 
 
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